lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk

gen_pool_alloc_algo() iterates over the chunks of a pool trying to find
a contiguous block of memory that satisfies the allocation request.

The shortcut

	if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail))
		continue;

makes the loop skip over chunks that do not have enough bytes left to
fulfill the request.  There are two situations, though, where an
allocation might still fail:

(1) The available memory is not contiguous, i.e.  the request cannot
    be fulfilled due to external fragmentation.

(2) A race condition.  Another thread runs the same code concurrently
    and is quicker to grab the available memory.

In those situations, the loop calls pool->algo() to search the entire
chunk, and pool->algo() returns some value that is >= end_bit to
indicate that the search failed.  This return value is then assigned to
start_bit.  The variables start_bit and end_bit describe the range that
should be searched, and this range should be reset for every chunk that
is searched.  Today, the code fails to reset start_bit to 0.  As a
result, prefixes of subsequent chunks are ignored.  Memory allocations
might fail even though there is plenty of room left in these prefixes of
those other chunks.

Fixes: 7f184275aa30 ("lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477420604-28918-1-git-send-email-danielmentz@google.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c
index 0a1139644d32..144fe6b1a03e 100644
--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc_algo(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size,
         struct gen_pool_chunk *chunk;
         unsigned long addr = 0;
         int order = pool->min_alloc_order;
-        int nbits, start_bit = 0, end_bit, remain;
+        int nbits, start_bit, end_bit, remain;
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
         BUG_ON(in_nmi());
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc_algo(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size,
                 if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail))
                         continue;
 
+                start_bit = 0;
                 end_bit = chunk_size(chunk) >> order;
 retry:
                 start_bit = algo(chunk->bits, end_bit, start_bit,