From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> In this code, blkvsc_req is allocated in the cache blkdev->request_pool, but freed in the first case to the cache blkvsc_req->dev->request_pool. blkvsc_req->dev is subsequently initialized to blkdev, making these the same at the second call to kmem_cache_free. But at the point of the first call, blkvsc_req->dev is NULL. The second call is changed too, for uniformity. The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,e,e1,e2,e3; @@ x = \(kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\)(e1,e2) ... when != x = e ( kmem_cache_free(e1,x); | ?-kmem_cache_free(e3,x); +kmem_cache_free(e1,x); ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c --- a/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static int blkvsc_do_operation(struct bl page_buf = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!page_buf) { - kmem_cache_free(blkvsc_req->dev->request_pool, blkvsc_req); + kmem_cache_free(blkdev->request_pool, blkvsc_req); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ cleanup: __free_page(page_buf); - kmem_cache_free(blkvsc_req->dev->request_pool, blkvsc_req); + kmem_cache_free(blkdev->request_pool, blkvsc_req); return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
