From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:54:12 +0300
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:36:21PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On 23-06-2013 18:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>
>> >get user pages might fail partially in tun zero copy
>> >mode. To recover we need to put all pages that we got,
>> >but code used a wrong index resulting in double-free
>> >errors.
>>
>> >Reported-by: Brad Hubbard <bhubb...@redhat.com>
>> >Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
>> >---
>>
>> >I haven't figured out why do we get failures,
>> >but recovery is clearly wrong.
>>
>> >This is also -stable material.
>>
>> > drivers/net/tun.c | 5 +++--
>> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> >diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >index bfa9bb4..c098b1e 100644
>> >--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >@@ -1010,8 +1010,9 @@ static int zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(struct sk_buff
>> >*skb, const struct iovec *from,
>> > return -EMSGSIZE;
>> > num_pages = get_user_pages_fast(base, size, 0, &page[i]);
>> > if (num_pages != size) {
>> >- for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++)
>> >- put_page(page[i]);
>> >+ int j;
>>
>> Empty line wouldn't hurt here, after declaration.
>>
>> >+ for (j = 0; j < num_pages; j++)
>> >+ put_page(page[i + j]);
>
> I think it's clearer without: this is the only code
> within this block, declaration is really part of
> the loop that comes after it.
> An empty line would break it up visually.
No, really, an empty line after local variable declarations please.
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