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ehea: Fix DLPAR memory handling

Message ID 200809051636.26545.hannes.hering@gmx.de (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere, archived
Commit 70666c71957b62c8e9ea5c0d999a4bfd214c80d2
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Hannes Hering Sept. 5, 2008, 2:36 p.m. UTC 
The ehea busmap must be allocated only once in the first of many calls of the
ehea_create_busmap_callback.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>

Comments

Jeff Garzik Sept. 13, 2008, 7:55 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hannes Hering wrote:
> The ehea busmap must be allocated only once in the first of many calls of the
> ehea_create_busmap_callback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.27-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c
> --- linux-2.6.27-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c	2008-08-29 00:52:02.000000000 +0200
> +++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c	2008-09-05 15:31:30.000000000 +0200
> @@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ static int ehea_create_busmap_callback(u
>  	end_section = start_section + ((nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE) / EHEA_SECTSIZE);
>  	mr_len = *(unsigned long *)arg;
>  
> -	ehea_bmap = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ehea_bmap), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!ehea_bmap)
> +		ehea_bmap = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ehea_bmap), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!ehea_bmap)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

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diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.27-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c
--- linux-2.6.27-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c	2008-08-29 00:52:02.000000000 +0200
+++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c	2008-09-05 15:31:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@  static int ehea_create_busmap_callback(u
 	end_section = start_section + ((nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE) / EHEA_SECTSIZE);
 	mr_len = *(unsigned long *)arg;
 
-	ehea_bmap = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ehea_bmap), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ehea_bmap)
+		ehea_bmap = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ehea_bmap), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ehea_bmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;