[PATCH] viotape: Fix memory and semaphore leak

Michael Buesch mb at bu3sch.de
Sat Jul 18 23:06:33 EST 2009


This patch fixes a memory and semaphore leak in the viotape driver's
char device write op. It leaks the DMA memory and the semaphore lock
in case the device was opened with O_NONBLOCK.

This patch is only compile tested, because I do not have the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb at bu3sch.de>

---
 drivers/char/viotape.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/viotape.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/viotape.c
@@ -401,30 +401,31 @@ static ssize_t viotap_write(struct file 
 			viopath_targetinst(viopath_hostLp),
 			(u64)(unsigned long)op, VIOVERSION << 16,
 			((u64)devi.devno << 48) | op->dmaaddr, count, 0, 0);
 	if (hvrc != HvLpEvent_Rc_Good) {
 		printk(VIOTAPE_KERN_WARN "hv error on op %d\n",
 				(int)hvrc);
 		ret = -EIO;
 		goto free_dma;
 	}
 
-	if (noblock)
-		return count;
-
-	wait_for_completion(&op->com);
+	if (noblock) {
+		ret = count;
+	} else {
+		wait_for_completion(&op->com);
 
-	if (op->rc)
-		ret = tape_rc_to_errno(op->rc, "write", devi.devno);
-	else {
-		chg_state(devi.devno, VIOT_WRITING, file);
-		ret = op->count;
+		if (op->rc)
+			ret = tape_rc_to_errno(op->rc, "write", devi.devno);
+		else {
+			chg_state(devi.devno, VIOT_WRITING, file);
+			ret = op->count;
+		}
 	}
 
 free_dma:
 	dma_free_coherent(op->dev, count, op->buffer, op->dmaaddr);
 up_sem:
 	up(&reqSem);
 free_op:
 	free_op_struct(op);
 	return ret;
 }

-- 
Greetings, Michael.


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