Re: [PATCH] lib/genalloc: fix gen_pool_virt_to_phys locking

From: Leo Yan
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 22:22:48 EST


real mz,

You are right. :-) it's long time not see you guy.
For i am developed based on mainline, so if without this
patch, then the kernel will panic.

Best regards,
Leo Yan


On 2011å07æ28æ 18:39, real mz wrote:
this fix seems already on next tree

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=lib/genalloc.c;h=f352cc42f4f8a58b8e4c8304de32cb31b4e29b67;hb=HEAD


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Leo Yan<leoy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The func gen_pool_virt_to_phys will iterate the chunk list;
if find the correct chunk it should need release pool's lock.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan<leoy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/genalloc.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c
index 577ddf8..e625df5 100644
--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -92,8 +92,10 @@ phys_addr_t gen_pool_virt_to_phys(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr)
list_for_each(_chunk,&pool->chunks) {
chunk = list_entry(_chunk, struct gen_pool_chunk, next_chunk);

- if (addr>= chunk->start_addr&& addr< chunk->end_addr)
+ if (addr>= chunk->start_addr&& addr< chunk->end_addr) {
+ read_unlock(&pool->lock);
return chunk->phys_addr + addr - chunk->start_addr;
+ }
}
read_unlock(&pool->lock);

--
1.7.4.1


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