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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 16:53:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 16:53:15 -0800
commit3feeba1e53f54f726a39da254a5c41e02530255e (patch)
tree11be6e023579adb6727884f4cc105c3106a06fb4 /drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
parent7e92214b539ea17ccaf0886d140cbba9801a4d40 (diff)
parenta58c891a53aca81c78f9cbe0572a301042470e96 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (95 commits) b44: GFP_DMA skb should not escape from driver korina: do not use IRQF_SHARED with IRQF_DISABLED korina: do not stop queue here korina: fix handling tx_chain_tail korina: do tx at the right position korina: do schedule napi after testing for it korina: rework korina_rx() for use with napi korina: disable napi on close and restart korina: reset resource buffer size to 1536 korina: fix usage of driver_data bnx2x: First slow path interrupt race bnx2x: MTU Filter bnx2x: Indirection table initialization index bnx2x: Missing brackets bnx2x: Fixing the doorbell size bnx2x: Endianness issues bnx2x: VLAN tagged packets without VLAN offload bnx2x: Protecting the link change indication bnx2x: Flow control updated before reporting the link bnx2x: Missing mask when calculating flow control ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ppp_generic.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp_generic.c43
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
index 06b448285eb..7b2728b8f1b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static int ppp_connect_channel(struct channel *pch, int unit);
static int ppp_disconnect_channel(struct channel *pch);
static void ppp_destroy_channel(struct channel *pch);
static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr);
+static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n);
static void unit_put(struct idr *p, int n);
static void *unit_find(struct idr *p, int n);
@@ -2432,11 +2433,18 @@ ppp_create_interface(int unit, int *retp)
} else {
if (unit_find(&ppp_units_idr, unit))
goto out2; /* unit already exists */
- else {
- /* darn, someone is cheating us? */
- *retp = -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * if caller need a specified unit number
+ * lets try to satisfy him, otherwise --
+ * he should better ask us for new unit number
+ *
+ * NOTE: yes I know that returning EEXIST it's not
+ * fair but at least pppd will ask us to allocate
+ * new unit in this case so user is happy :)
+ */
+ unit = unit_set(&ppp_units_idr, ppp, unit);
+ if (unit < 0)
goto out2;
- }
}
/* Initialize the new ppp unit */
@@ -2677,14 +2685,37 @@ static void __exit ppp_cleanup(void)
* by holding all_ppp_mutex
*/
+/* associate pointer with specified number */
+static int unit_set(struct idr *p, void *ptr, int n)
+{
+ int unit, err;
+
+again:
+ if (!idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: No free memory for idr\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+ err = idr_get_new_above(p, ptr, n, &unit);
+ if (err == -EAGAIN)
+ goto again;
+
+ if (unit != n) {
+ idr_remove(p, unit);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ return unit;
+}
+
/* get new free unit number and associate pointer with it */
static int unit_get(struct idr *p, void *ptr)
{
int unit, err;
again:
- if (idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL) == 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "Out of memory expanding drawable idr\n");
+ if (!idr_pre_get(p, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: No free memory for idr\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}