[PATCH] uio: fix allocating minor id for uio device

[Hillf Danton]

The number of uio devices that could be used should be less than
UIO_MAX_DEVICES by design,
and this work guards any cases in which id more than UIO_MAX_DEVICES
is utilized.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
---

--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c	2011-01-05 08:50:20.000000000 +0800
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c	2011-03-27 15:05:26.000000000 +0800
@@ -381,7 +381,13 @@ static int uio_get_minor(struct uio_devi
 			retval = -ENOMEM;
 		goto exit;
 	}
-	idev->minor = id & MAX_ID_MASK;
+	if (id < UIO_MAX_DEVICES)
+		idev->minor = id;
+	else {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "uio: too many uio devices\n");
+		retval = -EINVAL;
+		idr_remove(&uio_idr, id);
+	}
 exit:
 	mutex_unlock(&minor_lock);
 	return retval;
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