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[PATCH] fix broken lib/genalloc.c
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genalloc improperly stores the sizes of freed chunks, allocates overlapping
memory regions, and oopses after its in-band data is overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Chris Humbert <mahadri-kernel@drigon.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Chris Humbert authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 28, 2005
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14 changes: 6 additions & 8 deletions lib/genalloc.c
Expand Up @@ -95,12 +95,10 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *poolp, int size)
if (size > max_chunk_size)
return 0;

i = 0;

size = max(size, 1 << ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT);
s = roundup_pow_of_two(size);

j = i;
i = fls(size - 1);
s = 1 << i;
j = i -= ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT;

spin_lock_irqsave(&poolp->lock, flags);
while (!h[j].next) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -153,10 +151,10 @@ void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *poolp, unsigned long ptr, int size)
if (size > max_chunk_size)
return;

i = 0;

size = max(size, 1 << ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT);
s = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
i = fls(size - 1);
s = 1 << i;
i -= ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT;

a = ptr;

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