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From: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.26-pre2
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 21:08:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404B812F.7000204@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403061618420.4428-100000@dmt.cyclades>

Hello,

> <mlord:pobox.com>:
>   o Fix vmalloc() error handling
> 

This change has a problem. In __vmalloc_area_pages when pmd_alloc fails, 
the spinlock will not be released. Maybe the following patch is needed? 
(only compile tested, I don't have SMP)

Michal Schmidt


--- linux-2.4.26-pre2/mm/vmalloc.c      Sun Mar  7 20:44:27 2004
+++ linux-2.4.26-pre2.mich/mm/vmalloc.c Sun Mar  7 20:54:02 2004
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ static inline int __vmalloc_area_pages (
  err:
         if (address > start)
                 vmfree_area_pages((address - start), address - start);
+       spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
         return -ENOMEM;
  }

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-07 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-06 19:20 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-03-07  5:44 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-03-07 16:19   ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-07 18:49     ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-07 19:42       ` Michael Frank
2004-03-07 19:25     ` David Weinehall
2004-03-07 19:52       ` Rene Herman
2004-03-07 19:58         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-07 20:05         ` David Weinehall
2004-03-07 20:58           ` Michael Frank
2004-03-07 20:08 ` Michal Schmidt [this message]

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