Patch "lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     lib-genalloc.c-start-search-from-start-of-chunk.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 62e931fac45b17c2a42549389879411572f75804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:46:59 -0700
Subject: lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk

From: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>

commit 62e931fac45b17c2a42549389879411572f75804 upstream.

gen_pool_alloc_algo() iterates over the chunks of a pool trying to find
a contiguous block of memory that satisfies the allocation request.

The shortcut

	if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail))
		continue;

makes the loop skip over chunks that do not have enough bytes left to
fulfill the request.  There are two situations, though, where an
allocation might still fail:

(1) The available memory is not contiguous, i.e.  the request cannot
    be fulfilled due to external fragmentation.

(2) A race condition.  Another thread runs the same code concurrently
    and is quicker to grab the available memory.

In those situations, the loop calls pool->algo() to search the entire
chunk, and pool->algo() returns some value that is >= end_bit to
indicate that the search failed.  This return value is then assigned to
start_bit.  The variables start_bit and end_bit describe the range that
should be searched, and this range should be reset for every chunk that
is searched.  Today, the code fails to reset start_bit to 0.  As a
result, prefixes of subsequent chunks are ignored.  Memory allocations
might fail even though there is plenty of room left in these prefixes of
those other chunks.

Fixes: 7f184275aa30 ("lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477420604-28918-1-git-send-email-danielmentz@google.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 lib/genalloc.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_
 	struct gen_pool_chunk *chunk;
 	unsigned long addr = 0;
 	int order = pool->min_alloc_order;
-	int nbits, start_bit = 0, end_bit, remain;
+	int nbits, start_bit, end_bit, remain;
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	BUG_ON(in_nmi());
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_
 		if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail))
 			continue;
 
+		start_bit = 0;
 		end_bit = chunk_size(chunk) >> order;
 retry:
 		start_bit = pool->algo(chunk->bits, end_bit, start_bit, nbits,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from danielmentz@google.com are

queue-4.4/lib-genalloc.c-start-search-from-start-of-chunk.patch