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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ib: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:13:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adalkwsujbs.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602031948100.14829@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (Hugh Dickins's message of "Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:51:18 +0000 (GMT)")

Thanks, Hugh.  This is definitely a real bug caused by an embarassing
oversight on my part.  I will test and apply to my trees.

 > Warning: untested!  And please double-check the adjusted definition of
 > IB_UMEM_MAX_PAGE_CHUNK - the old definition was avoiding "sizeof"s, but
 > I don't understand why.

The old definition of IB_UMEM_MAX_PAGE_CHUNK came from my paranoia:

 >  #define IB_UMEM_MAX_PAGE_CHUNK						\
 >  	((PAGE_SIZE - offsetof(struct ib_umem_chunk, page_list)) /	\
 > -	 ((void *) &((struct ib_umem_chunk *) 0)->page_list[1] -	\
 > -	  (void *) &((struct ib_umem_chunk *) 0)->page_list[0]))
 > +	 (sizeof(struct scatterlist) + sizeof(struct page *)))

I was afraid that some compiler somewhere might add in some padding
that would cause sizeof (struct scatterlist) to be smaller than the
entries in the array end up being, but now I've convinced myself that
this can't happen -- if it could then things like ARRAY_SIZE() would
be stuffed as well.

So I think your version is correct and clearer.

Thanks,
  Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20051129092432.0f5742f0.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-11-29 18:34 ` Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? Ryan Richter
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511292147120.5739@kai.makisara.local>
2005-11-29 20:31   ` Ryan Richter
2005-11-29 20:48     ` Kai Makisara
2005-11-29 20:58       ` Ryan Richter
2005-11-29 21:36         ` Kai Makisara
2005-11-30  5:12       ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:18 ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:38   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 19:56     ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-01 20:21       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-01 21:44         ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 18:03         ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-02 18:43           ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-02 19:12           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 19:44             ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-02 20:40               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-03 17:29                 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 16:08                 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 20:31                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-06 20:43                     ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:37                       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-08  2:26                         ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 16:54                         ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 17:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 17:45                             ` James Bottomley
2005-12-12 18:04                               ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-12 18:09                               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-12 18:24                                 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-15 19:09                                   ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-16  4:01                                     ` James Bottomley
2005-12-17  3:31                                       ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-26 23:42                                       ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-27 16:21                                         ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-03 19:03                                           ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-04 17:27                                           ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-04 21:48                                             ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-05  5:40                                               ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-05 20:12                                               ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-05 21:18                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-08 22:36                                                   ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09  3:31                                                   ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09  4:07                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-09  5:13                                                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-09  5:45                                                         ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09  5:57                                                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-09  9:44                                                       ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-09 18:53                                                         ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-09 19:31                                                           ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-09 20:05                                                             ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-18  0:12                                                             ` Ryan Richter
2006-01-18 16:00                                                               ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:46                                                                 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:51                                                                   ` [PATCH] ib: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 23:13                                                                     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-02-03 19:53                                                                   ` [PATCH] st: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 20:38                                                                     ` Mike Christie
2006-02-03 21:16                                                                       ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-04 12:10                                                                         ` Kai Makisara
2006-02-04 15:01                                                                           ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:55                                                                   ` [PATCH] ipr: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 22:06                                                                     ` Brian King
2006-02-04  0:26                                                                       ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-05 21:35                                                                         ` Brian King
2006-02-06  9:32                                                                           ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06  9:46                                                                             ` David S. Miller
2006-02-06 14:46                                                                               ` Brian King
2006-02-06 16:45                                                                                 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 17:38                                                                                   ` James Bottomley
2006-02-06 19:15                                                                                     ` Brian King
2006-02-06 21:11                                                                                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 21:49                                                                                     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-06 22:11                                                                                     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 22:13                                                                                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07  3:09                                                                                       ` Ryan Richter
2006-02-11 22:38                                                                                       ` Ryan Richter
2006-02-12 18:57                                                                                         ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-12 21:29                                                                                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-13 17:21                                                                                             ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-06 15:02                                                                               ` James Bottomley
2006-02-06 17:01                                                                                 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 19:56                                                                   ` [PATCH] osst: " Hugh Dickins
2006-02-03 21:10                                                                   ` Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? Ryan Richter
2006-02-04 11:58                                                                   ` Kai Makisara
2006-02-04 14:46                                                                     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-05 22:09                                                 ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-04 18:26                                           ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:30                     ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-07 18:56                       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-07 19:06                         ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-06 17:57                 ` Ryan Richter
2005-12-01 20:28     ` James Bottomley
2005-12-01 21:17       ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 13:45         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 17:59           ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 18:55             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-02 19:46               ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-02 20:47                 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-04  9:29                   ` Kai Makisara
2005-12-01 19:53   ` Ryan Richter

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