From: Jeremy Higdon I believe there is a bug in kernel/resource.c. We (SGI sn2 I/O code) are using this for allocating dma map resources, and we tracked failures we were seeing to find_resource(). The problem is that when testing bounds in the forever loop, the end bound would be one higher than it should be if it gets set from another resource (it's set to the proper value when it gets set from the root), causing find_resource to return an invalid min/max when the requested size was one greater than would fit between two existing resources. kernel/resource.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/resource.c~resource-bounds-fix kernel/resource.c --- 25/kernel/resource.c~resource-bounds-fix 2003-11-13 19:49:28.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/resource.c 2003-11-13 19:49:28.000000000 -0800 @@ -244,9 +244,17 @@ static int find_resource(struct resource struct resource *this = root->child; new->start = root->start; + /* + * Skip past an allocated resource that starts at 0, since the assignment + * of this->start - 1 to new->end below would cause an underflow. + */ + if (this && this->start == 0) { + new->start = this->end + 1; + this = this->sibling; + } for(;;) { if (this) - new->end = this->start; + new->end = this->start - 1; else new->end = root->end; if (new->start < min) _