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: 7f18427 ("lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: danielmentzgoogle

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,