linux-kernel - Re: [patch] exofs: confusion between kmap() and kmap

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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 18:15:29 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>,
	Avishay Traeger <avishay@...il.com>, osd-dev@...n-osd.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] exofs: confusion between kmap() and kmap_atomic() api

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:16:38PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 12:05 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > For kmap_atomic() we call kunmap_atomic() on the returned pointer.
> > That's different from kmap() and kunmap() and so it's easy to get them
> > backwards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> > 
> 
> Thank you Dan, I'll push it ASAP. 
> 
> Looks like a bad bug. So this is actually a leak, right? kunmap_atomic
> would detect the bad pointer and do nothing?
> 

I've looked at it, and I think you're right but I'm not the guy to ask...

I saw somenoe else fixing these and wrote a smatch check is all.  I'm at
the "Monkey see, monkey do" level of kernel hacking.

regards,
dan carpenter

 
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