Commit 1a02d59a authored Jan 27, 2010 by Anton Vorontsov Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Feb 16, 2010

kfifo: Make kfifo_initialized work after kfifo_free

After kfifo rework it's no longer possible to reliably know if kfifo is
usable, since after kfifo_free(), kfifo_initialized() would still return
true. The correct behaviour is needed for at least FHCI USB driver.

This patch fixes the issue by resetting the kfifo to zero values (the
same approach is used in kfifo_alloc() if allocation failed).

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent 1ebca9da

kernel/kfifo.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_alloc);
		void kfifo_free(struct kfifo *fifo)
		{
		kfree(fifo->buffer);
		_kfifo_init(fifo, NULL, 0);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_free);

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