[PATCH V3 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in vmbus_establish_gpadl()

[Jeremiah Mahler]

K. Y. Srinivasan,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:13:00PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Correctly compute the local (gpadl) handle. 

This description is still too sparse for me.  How was it computed before
and why was this incorrect?  Pretend like you are trying to explain your
patch to someone who has no idea what you did.

> I would like to thank Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> for seeing this bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Reported-by: Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>
> ---
> Changes in V2: Added the Reported-by tag.
> Changes in V3: Cleaned up the commit log.
> 
>  drivers/hv/channel.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> index 433f72a..c76ffbe 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> @@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ int vmbus_establish_gpadl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, void *kbuffer,
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	next_gpadl_handle = atomic_read(&vmbus_connection.next_gpadl_handle);
> -	atomic_inc(&vmbus_connection.next_gpadl_handle);
> +	next_gpadl_handle =
> +		(atomic_inc_return(&vmbus_connection.next_gpadl_handle) - 1);
>  
Tell me if I understand this correctly.

Before it read the handle and incremented it.

  y = x + 1

Now it reads the handle, increments it, then decrements it.

  y = (x + 1) - 1 = x

>  	ret = create_gpadl_header(kbuffer, size, &msginfo, &msgcount);
>  	if (ret)
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 
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- Jeremiah Mahler