From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@gmx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch idr-fix-a-critical-misallocation-bug.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:51:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B73C50B.5040303@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002041641.21063.s.L-H@gmx.de>
Hello,
Can you please test the following patch on top of the current
mainline?
Thanks.
diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
index 1cac726..0dc7822 100644
--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -156,10 +156,12 @@ static int sub_alloc(struct idr *idp, int *starting_id, struct idr_layer **pa)
id = (id | ((1 << (IDR_BITS * l)) - 1)) + 1;
/* if already at the top layer, we need to grow */
- if (!(p = pa[l])) {
+ if (id >= 1 << (idp->layers * IDR_BITS)) {
*starting_id = id;
return IDR_NEED_TO_GROW;
}
+ p = pa[l];
+ BUG_ON(!p);
/* If we need to go up one layer, continue the
* loop; otherwise, restart from the top.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-11 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-02-04 3:46 ` patch idr-fix-a-critical-misallocation-bug.patch added to 2.6.32-stable tree Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2010-02-04 3:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-02-04 8:36 ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-02-04 15:41 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2010-02-11 8:51 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-02-11 14:32 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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