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authorChris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com>2005-11-29 00:43:54 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-29 01:42:23 +0300
commit46596338a10a54550ff03a6f60c28145a080296b (patch)
tree563a8e6589c449679ca5f8d35aac7189a600a603 /lib
parent7729ac5efe156129d172784fedeaddb2167a1914 (diff)
downloadlinux-46596338a10a54550ff03a6f60c28145a080296b.tar.xz
[PATCH] fix broken lib/genalloc.c
genalloc improperly stores the sizes of freed chunks, allocates overlapping memory regions, and oopses after its in-band data is overwritten. Signed-off-by: Chris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/genalloc.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c
index d6d30d2e7166..9ce0a6a3b85a 100644
--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -95,12 +95,10 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *poolp, int size)
if (size > max_chunk_size)
return 0;
- i = 0;
-
size = max(size, 1 << ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT);
- s = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
-
- j = i;
+ i = fls(size - 1);
+ s = 1 << i;
+ j = i -= ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT;
spin_lock_irqsave(&poolp->lock, flags);
while (!h[j].next) {
@@ -153,10 +151,10 @@ void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *poolp, unsigned long ptr, int size)
if (size > max_chunk_size)
return;
- i = 0;
-
size = max(size, 1 << ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT);
- s = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
+ i = fls(size - 1);
+ s = 1 << i;
+ i -= ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT;
a = ptr;