[PATCH] bitmap: fix bitmap_find_free_region()

From: Guennadi Liakhovetski
Date: Fri Dec 19 2008 - 06:26:48 EST


Currently bitmap_find_free_region() assumes, that the requested region
size is smaller than the entire bitmap. If this is not the case it fails
to detect it and returns success, while pointing at a position outside of
the region.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
It is hard to believe, that this is a bug, last time this code was touched
in 2006... Or should the caller guarantee, that the requested region is
not larger than the bitmap? Then dma_alloc_from_coherent() is buggy, which
is where I hit this bug. But it seems to me bitmap_find_free_region()
should be fixed.

diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index 1338469..079c5e3 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -950,6 +950,9 @@ int bitmap_find_free_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int bits, int order)
{
int pos; /* scans bitmap by regions of size order */

+ if (bits < 1 << order)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
for (pos = 0; pos < bits; pos += (1 << order))
if (__reg_op(bitmap, pos, order, REG_OP_ISFREE))
break;
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