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

[Pali RohÃr]

On Monday 15 June 2015 23:18:16 Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 14-06-15 11:05:07, Pali RohÃr 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);
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 	buffer = page_address(bufferpage);
> 
> [...]
> 
> > fail_rfkill:
> > 	free_page((unsigned long)bufferpage);
> 
> This one should be __free_page because it consumes struct page* and
> it is the proper counter part for alloc_page. free_page, just to
> make it confusing, consumes an address which has to be translated to
> a struct page.
> 
> I have no idea why the API has been done this way and yeah, it is
> really confusing.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > static void __exit dell_exit(void)
> > {
> > ...
> > 
> > 	free_page((unsigned long)buffer);

So both, either:

 free_page((unsigned long)buffer);

or

 __free_page(bufferpage);

is correct?

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Pali RohÃr
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