[PATCH] percpu: Fix rollback in pcpu_embed_first_chunk()

From: Michael Holzheu
Date: Wed May 09 2012 - 08:39:51 EST


From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: percpu: Fix rollback in pcpu_embed_first_chunk()

The "out_free_areas" rollback in pcpu_embed_first_chunk calls the
free_fn() function for all elements in area[]. This is not correct
because not all elements have been allocated.

To fix this we call free_fn() only for allocated elements.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index f47af91..5a7f631 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1692,9 +1692,9 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,
goto out_free;

out_free_areas:
- for (group = 0; group < ai->nr_groups; group++)
- free_fn(areas[group],
- ai->groups[group].nr_units * ai->unit_size);
+ for (;group > 0; group--)
+ free_fn(areas[group - 1],
+ ai->groups[group - 1].nr_units * ai->unit_size);
out_free:
pcpu_free_alloc_info(ai);
if (areas)

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