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author | wpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-14 21:56:53 +0000 |
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committer | wpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-14 21:56:53 +0000 |
commit | 6b7f805e471ad8a2b7cc943b9f0b9e5f08a5c26c (patch) | |
tree | 82c5b095a7ca550dfe5307249b7edd4193461291 /share/man/man9 | |
parent | 0ae65492e23199bd2bfe04bac607d4c06c0be050 (diff) | |
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Fix yet another "unconditionally free()ing memory without even checking
to see if it was malloc()ed first" bug. In bus_dmamap_create(), one of
two things can happen: either we need to allocate a special map due to
some manner of bounce buffering requirement, or we can DMA a buffer
in place. On the x86 platform, the "in place" case results in
bus_dmamap_create() returning a dmamap of NULL. The bus_dmamap_destroy()
routine later checks for NULL and won't bother free()ing the map if
it detects this condition.
But on the alpha, we don't use NULL, we use a statically allocated map
called nobounce_dmamap(). Unfortunately, bus_dmamap_destroy() does not
handle the condition where we attempt to destroy such a map: it tries
to free() the dmamap, which causes a panic.
Fix: test that map != &nobounce_dmamap before trying to free() it.
With this fix, my busdma-ified if_sis driver works on the alpha. I'm
a bit alarmed that I'm the first person ever to trip over this bug, since
we have been using busdma on the alpha for a while, and since it sort
of screams out "Hi! I'm a bug! Booga-booga!" when you look at it.
(Somewhere, somebody will say: "But Bill, why don't you just not bother
destroying the maps in this case." Because the API is supposed to be
a) symetrical and b) opaque to the caller. I can't know whether it's safe
to skip the bus_dmamap_destroy() step or not without sticking my fingers
into unsafe places, which is what I wanted to avoid in the first place.)
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