Re: BUG at mm/mmap.c:2309 when cx18.ko and cx18-alsa.ko loaded

[Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:04 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 10:37 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > I do expect the underlying problem to be somewhere down the driver
> > end, given that nobody else has been reporting these issues.  I'm
> > hoping that once the cx18 guys have time to try to reproduce it,
> > they'll be better able to track it down.

Hi Hugh,

You were correct.  The mistake was in the cx18 driver, in the last thing
that I touched, of course.  The code causing the bug isn't anywhere
aside from my private repo.

All,

Sorry for all the noise.

The bug was so idiotic, I fell compelled to show the fix:

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-scb.c b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18
index fd89ad0..d17ffc8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-scb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-scb.c
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 
 int cx18_scb_init_mdl_ent_mgmt(struct cx18 *cx)
 {
-       cx->scb_mdl_ent_map = kzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(SCB_MDL_ENTRIES),
-                                     GFP_KERNEL);
+       cx->scb_mdl_ent_map = kzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(SCB_MDL_ENTRIES)
+                                               * sizeof(long), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (cx->scb_mdl_ent_map == NULL) {
                CX18_ERR("Fatal: unable to allocate bitmap for managing SCB MDL"
                         "entries\n");

So now the subsequent call to

	bitmap_zero(cx->scb_mdl_ent_map, SCB_MDL_ENTRIES);

doesn't walk off the end of what was allocated.

Apparently BITS_TO_LONGS() is not BITS_TO_LONGS_TO_BYTES().

Regards,
Andy