From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/memremap: Remove stale devres_free() call
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32ddc675-f12f-1a75-2dee-7edffc60d9c7@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180306045647.7784-1-oohall@gmail.com>
On 05/03/18 09:56 PM, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> devm_memremap_pages() was re-worked in e8d513483300 to take a caller
> allocated struct dev_pagemap as a function parameter. A call to
> devres_free() was left in the error cleanup path which results in
> a kernel panic if the remap fails for some reason. Remove it
> to fix the panic and let devm_memremap_pages() fail gracefully.
>
> Fixes: e8d513483300 ("memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap")
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> ---
> Both in-tree users of devm_memremap_pages() embed dev_pagemap into other
> structures so this shouldn't cause any leaks. Logan's p2p series does
> add one usage that assumes pgmap will be freed on error so that'll
> need fixing.
Yup, nice catch! I'll fix that for the next series.
Thanks,
Logan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 4:56 Oliver O'Halloran
2018-03-06 8:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-06 16:55 ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2018-03-06 19:09 ` Dan Williams
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