From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general][PATCH] mlx4: FIX error flow when initializing EQ table
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:46:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adavdn53zkw.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2BD9B9.6000802@mellanox.co.il> (Yevgeny Petrilin's message of "Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:16:09 +0300")
> If mlx4_create_eq() would fail for one of EQ's assigned for
> completion handling, the code would try to free the same EQ
> we failed to create.
> The crash was found by Christoph Lameter
Thanks, good catch. However looking at the code it seems that a simpler
way to fix this would be as below. Can you confirm that this works too?
---
drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c
index 8830dcb..033817e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/eq.c
@@ -677,12 +677,12 @@ err_out_async:
mlx4_free_eq(dev, &priv->eq_table.eq[dev->caps.num_comp_vectors]);
err_out_comp:
- i = dev->caps.num_comp_vectors - 1;
+ i = dev->caps.num_comp_vectors;
err_out_unmap:
- while (i >= 0) {
- mlx4_free_eq(dev, &priv->eq_table.eq[i]);
+ while (i > 0) {
--i;
+ mlx4_free_eq(dev, &priv->eq_table.eq[i]);
}
mlx4_unmap_clr_int(dev);
mlx4_free_irqs(dev);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-07 15:16 [ofa-general][PATCH] mlx4: FIX error flow when initializing EQ table Yevgeny Petrilin
2009-06-08 7:40 ` David Miller
2009-06-09 20:46 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-06-10 6:52 ` Yevgeny Petrilin
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