Hi Rui,

Thank you for your review.

2013/04/16 17:17, Wang, Rui Y wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:15:28 +0900
Subject: [Bug fix PATCH] resource: Reusing a resource structure allocated by
bootmem
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
<<...>>
+       if (bootmem_resource.sibling) {
+               spin_lock(&bootmem_resource_lock);
+               res = bootmem_resource.sibling;
+               bootmem_resource.sibling = res->sibling;
+               spin_unlock(&bootmem_resource_lock);
+               memset(res, 0, sizeof(struct resource));
+       } else {
+               res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), flags);
+       }


bootmem_resource_lock does not protect the if() statement from accessing 
bootmem_resource.sibling.

spin_lock(&bootmem_resource_lock);
if (bootmem_resource.sibling) {

You are right. I'll update it.

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

...

Rui



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