On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 03:39:06PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 01:35:32PM +0000, Vimal Agrawal wrote:
> > misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of
> > MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids
> > using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn:
> > > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
> > > > ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated.
> > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > ...
> > > > [<60941eb4>] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
> > > > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc
> > > > [<605acb82>] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3
> >
> > misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors
> > falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors
> >
> > Fixes: ab760791c0cf ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448")
> > Signed-off-by: Vimal Agrawal <avimalin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sorry, but no, do not hide behind a gmail.com address. Either fix your
> corporate email system to be able to send patches out, or use the other
> method of sending from a different address as documented in the kernel
> documentation.
>
> As it is, I can't take this, sorry.
Also, only patch 1/2 showed up, what happened to patch 2/2?
thanks,
greg k-h
