Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix dmi_alloc() to not advance alloc index incase of failure

[Ingo Molnar]

* Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> dmi_alloc() for CONFIG_X86_64 is defined to allocate from a static 
> array and it maintains a allocation index which is advanced each time 
> allocation is attempted - it gets incremented even if an allocation 
> fails thereby depriving any future request that may be small enough to 
> be satisfied from the array.
>
> Fix this by first testing if allocation is going to be possible and 
> incrementing alloc index only then.

Thanks, applied. Nice catch!

	Ingo
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