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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>,
	Avishay Traeger <avishay@gmail.com>,
	osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] exofs: confusion between kmap() and kmap_atomic() api
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:15:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510161528.GX27064@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE68B86.50707@panasas.com>

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:16:38PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 12:05 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > For kmap_atomic() we call kunmap_atomic() on the returned pointer.
> > That's different from kmap() and kunmap() and so it's easy to get them
> > backwards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> > 
> 
> Thank you Dan, I'll push it ASAP. 
> 
> Looks like a bad bug. So this is actually a leak, right? kunmap_atomic
> would detect the bad pointer and do nothing?
> 

I've looked at it, and I think you're right but I'm not the guy to ask...

I saw somenoe else fixing these and wrote a smatch check is all.  I'm at
the "Monkey see, monkey do" level of kernel hacking.

regards,
dan carpenter

 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07  9:05 [patch] exofs: confusion between kmap() and kmap_atomic() api Dan Carpenter
2010-05-09 10:16 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-10 16:15   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-05-10 23:03   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-11  8:05     ` Boaz Harrosh

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