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Subject[PATCH 1/2] Fix race in debug_kmap_atomic() which could cause warn_count to underflow
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debug_kmap_atomic() tries to prevent ever printing more than 10
warnings, but it does so by testing whether an unsigned integer is
equal to 0. However, if the warning is caused by a nested IRQ, then
this counter may underflow and the stream of warnings will never end.

Fix that by using a signed integer instead.

Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
---
mm/highmem.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/highmem.c b/mm/highmem.c
index 25878cc..33587de 100644
--- a/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/mm/highmem.c
@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ void __init page_address_init(void)

void debug_kmap_atomic(enum km_type type)
{
- static unsigned warn_count = 10;
+ static int warn_count = 10;

- if (unlikely(warn_count == 0))
+ if (unlikely(warn_count < 0))
return;

if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) {
--
1.6.5.1
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