Re: Possible broken MM code in dell-laptop.c?

[Darren Hart]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c is this part of code:
> 
> static int __init dell_init(void)
> {
> ...
> 	/*
> 	 * Allocate buffer below 4GB for SMI data--only 32-bit physical addr
> 	 * is passed to SMI handler.
> 	 */
> 	bufferpage = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32);
> 	if (!bufferpage) {
> 		ret = -ENOMEM;
> 		goto fail_buffer;
> 	}
> 	buffer = page_address(bufferpage);
> 
> 	ret = dell_setup_rfkill();
> 
> 	if (ret) {
> 		pr_warn("Unable to setup rfkill\n");
> 		goto fail_rfkill;
> 	}
> ...
> fail_rfkill:
> 	free_page((unsigned long)bufferpage);
> fail_buffer:
> ...
> }
> 
> Then there is another part:
> 
> static void __exit dell_exit(void)
> {
> ...
> 	free_page((unsigned long)buffer);

I believe you are correct, and this should be bufferpage. Have you observed any
failures?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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