On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:39:18PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> Currently the I/O buffer is allocated part of the device status
> structure, potentially sharing the same cache line with other members
> in this structure.
>
> Allocate the buffer separately, to avoid the I/O operations corrupting
> the device status structure due to cache line sharing.
>
> Compiled tested only as I don't have access to hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/viperboard.c | 8 ++++++++
> include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c b/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c
> index e00f534..5f62f4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c
> @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ static int vprbrd_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> + vb->buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vprbrd_i2c_write_msg), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (vb->buf == NULL) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto error;
This will cause a kref imbalance as you have a usb_put_dev in error,
but haven't done the get yet.
> + }
> +
> mutex_init(&vb->lock);
>
> vb->usb_dev = usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(interface));
Here's the get.
Johan
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