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author | Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> | 2013-10-31 19:34:17 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-11-12 22:05:33 -0500 |
commit | e14594cd658f655ae3384fcc3ec8c345b36cd4d0 (patch) | |
tree | 1f0a54dbf7717dd2f92f45dbf0728a9b2467b067 /lib | |
parent | c79c7ad9d1398787f907f85afc44cf7d6623027d (diff) |
lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page
commit 3d77b50c5874b7e923be946ba793644f82336b75 upstream.
Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper
functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and calls
flush_kernel_dcache_page() on pages in SG list after these pages are
written to.
Unfortunately, the commit may introduce a potential bug:
- Before sending some SCSI commands, kmalloc() buffer may be passed to
block layper, so flush_kernel_dcache_page() can see a slab page
finally
- According to cachetlb.txt, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is only called
on "a user page", which surely can't be a slab page.
- ARCH's implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() may use page
mapping information to do optimization so page_mapping() will see the
slab page, then VM_BUG_ON() is triggered.
Aaro Koskinen reported the bug on ARM/kirkwood when DEBUG_VM is enabled,
and this patch fixes the bug by adding test of '!PageSlab(miter->page)'
before calling flush_kernel_dcache_page().
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Tested-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/scatterlist.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index a1cf8cae60e7..3e7df38067ae 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c | |||
@@ -529,7 +529,8 @@ void sg_miter_stop(struct sg_mapping_iter *miter) | |||
529 | miter->__offset += miter->consumed; | 529 | miter->__offset += miter->consumed; |
530 | miter->__remaining -= miter->consumed; | 530 | miter->__remaining -= miter->consumed; |
531 | 531 | ||
532 | if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG) | 532 | if ((miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG) && |
533 | !PageSlab(miter->page)) | ||
533 | flush_kernel_dcache_page(miter->page); | 534 | flush_kernel_dcache_page(miter->page); |
534 | 535 | ||
535 | if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_ATOMIC) { | 536 | if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_ATOMIC) { |