Re: [PATCH] Possible AMD8111e free irq issue

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 01:23:56 EST


Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
Hi,

It seems to me that if in the amd8111e_open() fuction dev->irq isn't
zero and the irq request succeeds it might not get released anymore.

Specifically, on failure of the amd8111e_restart() call the function
returns -ENOMEM without releasing the irq. The amd8111e_restart()
function can fail because of various pci_alloc_consistent() and
dev_alloc_skb() calls in amd8111e_init_ring() which is being
called by amd8111e_restart.

1374 if(dev->irq ==0 || request_irq(dev->irq, amd8111e_interrupt, SA_SHIRQ,
1375 dev->name, dev))
1376 return -EAGAIN;

The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc5-bk2.

If I'm right about the above, I'm not I'm not sure if the free_irq() should
happen before or after releasing the spinlock.

With friendly regards,
Takis

diff -uprN linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2/drivers/net/amd8111e.c linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2-pi/drivers/net/amd8111e.c
--- linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2/drivers/net/amd8111e.c 2005-02-28 13:44:46.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc5-bk2-pi/drivers/net/amd8111e.c 2005-02-28 13:45:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -1381,6 +1381,8 @@ static int amd8111e_open(struct net_devi
if(amd8111e_restart(dev)){
spin_unlock_irq(&lp->lock);
+ if (dev->irq)
+ free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
return -ENOMEM;

Yes, this is a needed fix. Thanks.

Jeff



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