From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
To: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Cc: opw-kernel@googlegroups.com, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
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 v9 2/2] Staging: zram: Fix decrement of variable by calling bdput()
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:54:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52736C52.8080600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fdb273ab0b1e7514f119d7e619ac708d2277d34.1383220461.git.rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
On 10/31/2013 12:58 PM, Rashika Kheria wrote:
> As suggested by Jerome Marchand "The code in reset_store get the block device
The credit should actually go to Minchan. He found the bug. I merely
explained it.
> (bdget_disk()) but it does not put it (bdput()) when it's done using it.
> The usage count is therefore incremented but never decremented."
>
> This patch also puts bdput() for all error cases.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
This version finally looks good. Thanks for your effort.
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> This revision fixes the following issues of the previous revision-
> Proper error handling
>
> drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 012ba15..a1f8b1f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -652,21 +652,30 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> /* 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 */
> fsync_bdev(bdev);
> + bdput(bdev);
>
> zram_reset_device(zram, true);
> return len;
> +
> +out:
> + bdput(bdev);
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static void __zram_make_request(struct zram *zram, struct bio *bio, int rw)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-01 8:54 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
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 [this message]
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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