[PATCH] relay: fix for possible loss/corruption of produced subbufs

From: Aravind Srinivasan
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 00:40:27 EST


from: Aravind Srinivasan <raa.aars@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch fixes possible loss/corruption of produced subbufs in
relay_subbufs_consumed().

When buf->subbufs_produced wraps around after UINT_MAX and
buf->subbufs_consumed is still < UINT_MAX, the condition
if (buf->subbufs_consumed > buf->subbufs_produced)
will be true even for certain valid values of subbufs_consumed. This may lead
to loss or corruption of produced subbufs.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Srinivasan <raa.aars@xxxxxxxxx>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- linux-2.6.28/kernel/relay.c.orig 2009-02-17 07:53:55.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.28/kernel/relay.c 2009-02-17 07:54:14.000000000 +0530
@@ -795,13 +795,15 @@ void relay_subbufs_consumed(struct rchan
if (!chan)
return;

- if (cpu >= NR_CPUS || !chan->buf[cpu])
+ if (cpu >= NR_CPUS || !chan->buf[cpu] ||
+ subbufs_consumed > chan->n_subbufs)
return;

buf = chan->buf[cpu];
- buf->subbufs_consumed += subbufs_consumed;
- if (buf->subbufs_consumed > buf->subbufs_produced)
+ if (subbufs_consumed > buf->subbufs_produced - buf->subbufs_consumed)
buf->subbufs_consumed = buf->subbufs_produced;
+ else
+ buf->subbufs_consumed += subbufs_consumed;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_subbufs_consumed);
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