[PATCH] Fix loop logic in irq_alloc_virt()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 9 19:38:53 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:48 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> There's a bug in irq_alloc_virt() if it's asked for more than 1 interrupt,
> if it can't find a slot it might look past the end of the irq_map.
> 
> I think this is a fix. No one in the kernel actually calls this with
> count > 1, so it's not critical.

Good catch. /me stupid.

> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>


> ---
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: to-merge/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> ===================================================================
> --- to-merge.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> +++ to-merge/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -728,7 +728,6 @@ unsigned int irq_alloc_virt(struct irq_h
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	unsigned int i, j, found = NO_IRQ;
> -	unsigned int limit = irq_virq_count - count;
>  
>  	if (count == 0 || count > (irq_virq_count - NUM_ISA_INTERRUPTS))
>  		return NO_IRQ;
> @@ -745,14 +744,16 @@ unsigned int irq_alloc_virt(struct irq_h
>  	/* Look for count consecutive numbers in the allocatable
>  	 * (non-legacy) space
>  	 */
> -	for (i = NUM_ISA_INTERRUPTS; i <= limit; ) {
> -		for (j = i; j < (i + count); j++)
> -			if (irq_map[j].host != NULL) {
> -				i = j + 1;
> -				continue;
> -			}
> -		found = i;
> -		break;
> +	for (i = NUM_ISA_INTERRUPTS, j = 0; i < irq_virq_count; i++) {
> +		if (irq_map[i].host != NULL)
> +			j = 0;
> +		else
> +			j++;
> +
> +		if (j == count) {
> +			found = i - count + 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	if (found == NO_IRQ) {
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&irq_big_lock, flags);




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