On Thu, Oct 23 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> If activation of the CMA area fails its mutex won't be initialized,
> leading to an oops at allocation time when trying to lock the mutex. Fix
> this by failing allocation if the area hasn't been successfully actived,
> and detect that condition by moving the CMA bitmap allocation after page
> block reservation completion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+rene...@ideasonboard.com>

Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>  # v3.17
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <min...@mina86.com>

As a matter of fact, this is present in kernels earlier than 3.17 but in
the 3.17 the code has been moved from drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c to
mm/cma.c so this might require separate stable patch.  I can track this
and prepare a patch if you want.

> ---
>  mm/cma.c | 17 ++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 963bc4a..16c6650 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ static int __init cma_activate_area(struct cma *cma)
>       unsigned i = cma->count >> pageblock_order;
>       struct zone *zone;
>  
> -     cma->bitmap = kzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> -     if (!cma->bitmap)
> -             return -ENOMEM;
> -
>       WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn));
>       zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn));
>  
> @@ -114,17 +109,17 @@ static int __init cma_activate_area(struct cma *cma)
>                        * to be in the same zone.
>                        */
>                       if (page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) != zone)
> -                             goto err;
> +                             return -EINVAL;
>               }
>               init_cma_reserved_pageblock(pfn_to_page(base_pfn));
>       } while (--i);
>  
> +     cma->bitmap = kzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     if (!cma->bitmap)
> +             return -ENOMEM;
> +
>       mutex_init(&cma->lock);
>       return 0;
> -
> -err:
> -     kfree(cma->bitmap);
> -     return -EINVAL;
>  }
>  
>  static int __init cma_init_reserved_areas(void)
> @@ -313,7 +308,7 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, int count, 
> unsigned int align)
>       struct page *page = NULL;
>       int ret;
>  
> -     if (!cma || !cma->count)
> +     if (!cma || !cma->count || !cma->bitmap)
>               return NULL;
>  
>       pr_debug("%s(cma %p, count %d, align %d)\n", __func__, (void *)cma,
> -- 
> 2.0.4
>

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