Re: [PATCH] idr: fix backtrack logic in idr_remove_all

From: Imre Deak
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 07:19:46 EST


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:24:25PM +0200, ext Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 05/12/2010 01:47 PM, imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The fix changes how we determine the number of levels to step back.
> > Instead of deducting this merely from the msb of the current ID, we
> > should really check if advancing the ID causes an overflow to a bit
> > position corresponding to a given layer. In the above example overflow
> > from bit 0 to bit 1 should mean stepping back 1 level. Overflow from
> > bit 1 to bit 2 should mean stepping back 2 level and so on.
> >
> > The fix was tested with elements up to 1 << 20, which corresponds to
> > 4 layers on 32 bit systems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > lib/idr.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
> > index 9042a56..931d9d0 100644
> > --- a/lib/idr.c
> > +++ b/lib/idr.c
> > @@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(idr_remove);
> > void idr_remove_all(struct idr *idp)
> > {
> > int n, id, max;
> > + int bt_mask;
> > struct idr_layer *p;
> > struct idr_layer *pa[MAX_LEVEL];
> > struct idr_layer **paa = &pa[0];
> > @@ -462,8 +463,9 @@ void idr_remove_all(struct idr *idp)
> > p = p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK];
> > }
> >
> > + bt_mask = id;
> > id += 1 << n;
> > - while (n < fls(id)) {
> > + while (n < fls(id & ~bt_mask)) {
>
> Shouldn't this be id ^ bt_mask? The above only detects 1 -> 0
> transitions not the other way around.

It works according to the following with n=1:

id id+2 fls((id+2) & ~id)
0 2 2
2 4 3
4 6 2
6 8 4
8 10 2
10 12 3
12 14 2

I think this should work.

> I don't think it will free all the layers in the middle. Have you counted
> the number of frees match the number of allocations?

Not that, but I checked with kmemleak for 1 << 20 entries. I haven't got
any leaks.

--Imre

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