Re: [PATCH] Chardev checking of overlapping ranges is incorrect.

From: Linas Vepstas
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 18:58:24 EST


On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:55:55PM -0500, linas wrote:
>
> The current code in register_chrdev_region() attempts to check

A debug printk escaped with that patch. Here's the proper patch.
--linas

[PATCH] Chardev checking of overlapping ranges is incorrect.

The current code in register_chrdev_region() attempts to check
for overlapping regions of minor device numbers, but performs
that check incorrectly. For example, if a device with minor
numbers 128, 129, 130 is registered first, and a device with
minor number 3,4,5 is registered later, then the later range
is incorrectly identified as "overlapping" (since 130>3),
when clearly this is the wrong conclusion.

This patch fixes the overlap check to work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

----
fs/char_dev.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/fs/char_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2.orig/fs/char_dev.c 2006-08-07 17:16:53.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/fs/char_dev.c 2006-08-07 17:57:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -113,9 +113,13 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int ma
(((*cp)->baseminor >= baseminor) ||
((*cp)->baseminor + (*cp)->minorct > baseminor))))
break;
+
+ /* Check for overlap of minor ranges */
if (*cp && (*cp)->major == major &&
- (((*cp)->baseminor < baseminor + minorct) ||
- ((*cp)->baseminor + (*cp)->minorct > baseminor))) {
+ ((((*cp)->baseminor <= baseminor) &&
+ ((*cp)->baseminor + (*cp)->minorct >= baseminor)) ||
+ (((*cp)->baseminor >= baseminor) &&
+ ((*cp)->baseminor <= baseminor+minorct)))) {
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
-
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