Re: [PATCH] char:misc minor is overflowing

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:51:33 +0000 (GMT)
Nitin Gupta <nitin.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any modification / improvement needed in this patch ?
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> Sender : Shivnandan Kumar<shivnandan.k@xxxxxxxxxxx> Engineer/SRI-Noida-Advance Solutions - System 1 R&D Group/Samsung Electronics
> Date : Nov 20, 2015 15:35 (GMT+05:30)
> Title : [PATCH] char:misc minor is overflowing
> 
> When a driver register as a misc driver and 
> it tries to allocate  minor number dynamically.
> Then there is a chance of minor number overflow.
> The problem is that 64(DYNAMIC_MINORS) is not enough 

If you are allocating more than the odd minor number you shouldn't be
using misc devices in the first place but should be using
cdev_init/cdev_add/register_chrdev_region and friends.

So 64 really should never be "not enough". miscdevice is more historical
than useful and really goes back to the days long before all the region
allocators existed.

Alan
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