highmem: Fix race in debug_kmap_atomic() which could cause warn_count to underflow
authorSoeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:36 +0000 (18:55 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:15:32 +0000 (04:15 +0100)
debug_kmap_atomic() tries to prevent ever printing more than 10
warnings, but it does so by testing whether an unsigned integer
is equal to 0. However, if the warning is caused by a nested
IRQ, then this counter may underflow and the stream of warnings
will never end.

Fix that by using a signed integer instead.

Signed-off-by: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .31.x
LKML-Reference: <ye8zl7b8ktj.fsf@camel23.daimi.au.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
mm/highmem.c

index 25878cc..33587de 100644 (file)
@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ void __init page_address_init(void)
 
 void debug_kmap_atomic(enum km_type type)
 {
-       static unsigned warn_count = 10;
+       static int warn_count = 10;
 
-       if (unlikely(warn_count == 0))
+       if (unlikely(warn_count < 0))
                return;
 
        if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) {