Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:29:53 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | [60/93] devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes |
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2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
commit c85e9a97c4102ce2e83112da850d838cfab5ab13 upstream
devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes
[ cebbert@redhat.com : backport to 2.6.32 ]
write_kmem() used to assume vwrite() always return the full buffer length. However now vwrite() could return 0 to indicate memory hole. This creates a bug that "buf" is not advanced accordingly.
Fix it to simply ignore the return value, hence the memory hole.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- drivers/char/mem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file * break; } } - len = vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, len); + vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, len); count -= len; buf += len; virtr += len;
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