[PATCH 3.12 108/123] dell-laptop: Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Tue Aug 04 2015 - 10:48:37 EST


From: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>

3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit b8830a4e71b15d0364ac8e6c55301eea73f211da upstream.

This commit fix kernel crash when probing for rfkill devices in dell-laptop
driver failed. Function free_page() was incorrectly used on struct page *
instead of virtual address of SMI buffer.

This commit also simplify allocating page for SMI buffer by using
__get_free_page() function instead of sequential call of functions
alloc_page() and page_address().

Signed-off-by: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
index bb77e18b3dd4..a974c2761b5f 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ static struct dmi_system_id dell_quirks[] = {
};

static struct calling_interface_buffer *buffer;
-static struct page *bufferpage;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(buffer_mutex);

static int hwswitch_state;
@@ -550,12 +549,11 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
* Allocate buffer below 4GB for SMI data--only 32-bit physical addr
* is passed to SMI handler.
*/
- bufferpage = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32);
- if (!bufferpage) {
+ buffer = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32);
+ if (!buffer) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto fail_buffer;
}
- buffer = page_address(bufferpage);

if (quirks && quirks->touchpad_led)
touchpad_led_init(&platform_device->dev);
@@ -603,7 +601,7 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
return 0;

fail_backlight:
- free_page((unsigned long)bufferpage);
+ free_page((unsigned long)buffer);
fail_buffer:
platform_device_del(platform_device);
fail_platform_device2:
--
2.5.0

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