On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:19:30PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> nr_to_scan is the number of pages to be freed however ashmem doesn't
> discount nr_to_scan correctly as it frees ranges. It should be
> discounting them by pages than by ranges. Correct the issue.
>
> Cc: surenb@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> index 5891d0744a760..cb525ea6db98a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> @@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ ashmem_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
> lru_del(range);
>
> freed += range_size(range);
> + sc->nr_to_scan -= range_size(range);
^^
Two space characters.
In the old code we didn't *really* have to worry about sc->nr_to_scan
dropping to negative, but now we do. ->nr_to_scan is unsigned so it
would be a high positive value now so it's maybe a forever loop? I'm
too lazy to verify...
regards,
dan carpenter
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