From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120527002513.156229815@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 09:25:35 +0900 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Anton Vorontsov , Colin Cross Subject: [ 29/91] persistent_ram: Fix buffer size clamping during writes In-Reply-To: <20120527010903.GA18244@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Anton Vorontsov commit 484dd30e016eb425b0de871357fff2c9bb93be45 upstream. This is a longstanding bug, almost unnoticeable when calling persistent_ram_write() for small buffers. But when called for large data buffers, the write routine behaves incorrectly, as the size may never update: instead of clamping the size to the maximum buffer size, buffer_size_add_clamp() returns an error (which is never checked by the write routine, btw). To fix this, we now use buffer_size_add() that actually clamps the size to the max value. Also remove buffer_size_add_clamp(), it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-by: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c | 19 +------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/persistent_ram.c @@ -79,23 +79,6 @@ static inline void buffer_size_add(struc } while (atomic_cmpxchg(&prz->buffer->size, old, new) != old); } -/* increase the size counter, retuning an error if it hits the max size */ -static inline ssize_t buffer_size_add_clamp(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, - size_t a) -{ - size_t old; - size_t new; - - do { - old = atomic_read(&prz->buffer->size); - new = old + a; - if (new > prz->buffer_size) - return -ENOMEM; - } while (atomic_cmpxchg(&prz->buffer->size, old, new) != old); - - return 0; -} - static void notrace persistent_ram_encode_rs8(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, uint8_t *data, size_t len, uint8_t *ecc) { @@ -300,7 +283,7 @@ int notrace persistent_ram_write(struct c = prz->buffer_size; } - buffer_size_add_clamp(prz, c); + buffer_size_add(prz, c); start = buffer_start_add(prz, c);