From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Cc: opw-kernel@googlegroups.com,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Staging: zram: Fix decrement of variable by calling bdput()
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:33:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131030023356.GB17013@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7dc0036457aa94707bdc17b1f475c88f35cdb07.1383087326.git.rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:42:56AM +0530, Rashika Kheria wrote:
> As suggested by Jerome Marchand "The code in reset_store get the block device
> (bdget_disk()) but it does not put it (bdput()) when it's done using it.
> The usage count is therefor incremented but never decremented."
>
> Hence, this patch introduces a call to bdput() to decrement the variable after usage.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> This revision fixes the following issues of the previous revision-
> Handle more error cases
>
> drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index d640a8f..592e760 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -664,6 +664,9 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
>
> /* Make sure all pending I/O is finished */
> fsync_bdev(bdev);
> + bdput(bdev);
> + bdput(bdev->bd_holders);
> + bdput(do_reset);
I meant it.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index e77fb6e..32f9a44 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -621,22 +621,30 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
bdev = bdget_disk(zram->disk, 0);
/* Do not reset an active device! */
- if (bdev->bd_holders)
- return -EBUSY;
+ if (bdev->bd_holders) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto out;
+ }
ret = kstrtou16(buf, 10, &do_reset);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
- if (!do_reset)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (!do_reset) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
/* Make sure all pending I/O is finished */
- if (bdev)
- fsync_bdev(bdev);
+ fsync_bdev(bdev);
+ bdput(bdev);
zram_reset_device(zram);
return len;
+
+out:
+ bdput(bdev);
+ return ret;
}
static void __zram_make_request(struct zram *zram, struct bio *bio, int rw)
--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-30 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20131019110539.GA25167@gmail.com>
2013-10-29 23:10 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer Rashika Kheria
2013-10-29 23:12 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] Staging: zram: Fix decrement of variable by calling bdput() Rashika Kheria
2013-10-30 2:33 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2013-10-29 23:15 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] Staging: zram: Fix variable dereferenced before check Rashika Kheria
2013-10-30 2:35 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-30 10:44 ` Jerome Marchand
2013-10-30 2:24 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer Minchan Kim
2013-10-30 2:36 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-30 10:42 ` Jerome Marchand
2013-10-30 13:06 ` [PATCH v8 " Rashika Kheria
2013-10-30 13:10 ` [PATCH v8 2/3] Staging: zram: Fix decrement of variable by calling bdput() Rashika Kheria
2013-10-31 9:42 ` Weijie Yang
2013-10-31 11:56 ` [PATCH v9 1/2] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer Rashika Kheria
2013-10-31 11:58 ` [PATCH v9 2/2] Staging: zram: Fix decrement of variable by calling bdput() Rashika Kheria
2013-11-01 2:00 ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-01 8:54 ` Jerome Marchand
2013-11-01 14:13 ` Rashika Kheria
2013-11-01 14:06 ` [PATCH v10] Staging: zram: Fix memory leak by refcount mismatch Rashika Kheria
2013-11-10 15:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-10 15:56 ` [OPW kernel] " Rashika Kheria
2013-11-10 16:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-10 16:14 ` Rashika Kheria
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