linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uio: fix allocating minor id for uio device

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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:45:05 +0200
From:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: fix allocating minor id for uio device

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 04:00:39PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:

(Added Greg KH to Cc:)

> The number of uio devices that could be used should be less than
> UIO_MAX_DEVICES by design,
> and this work guards any cases in which id more than UIO_MAX_DEVICES
> is utilized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c	2011-01-05 08:50:20.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c	2011-03-27 15:05:26.000000000 +0800
> @@ -381,7 +381,13 @@ static int uio_get_minor(struct uio_devi
>  			retval = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
> -	idev->minor = id & MAX_ID_MASK;
> +	if (id < UIO_MAX_DEVICES)
> +		idev->minor = id;
> +	else {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "uio: too many uio devices\n");

No printk(), please. Use dev_err().
Otherwise, it looks good to me.

Thanks,
Hans

> +		retval = -EINVAL;
> +		idr_remove(&uio_idr, id);
> +	}
>  exit:
>  	mutex_unlock(&minor_lock);
>  	return retval;
> --
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