zap_pte_range() overruns the page tables if the distance between the start and end is not a multiple of the pagesize. Because then, `start' will never be equal to `end' and we will keep looping.
To fix this, round the boundary addresses to exclude partial pages from the range completely, we must not unmap them anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11335 >> Subject : 2.6.27-rc2-git5 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging >> request >> Submitter : Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date : 2008-08-12 4:18 (5 days old) >> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121851477201960&w=4 >> Handled-By : Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This should still be listed for now, it's interesting, > but I doubt we'll make any progress unless it can be reproduced. I think this patch fixes it. exit_mmap() even calls unmap_vmas() with an ending address of -1UL which is not page-aligned in my book and on my architecture :) It is a similar problem to what we had with gup some weeks ago. diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 1002f47..483c5d0 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -896,11 +896,17 @@ unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather **tlbp, long zap_work = ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE; unsigned long tlb_start = 0; /* For tlb_finish_mmu */ int tlb_start_valid = 0; - unsigned long start = start_addr; + unsigned long start; spinlock_t *i_mmap_lock = details? details->i_mmap_lock: NULL; int fullmm = (*tlbp)->fullmm; struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + /* Preserve partial pages */ + start_addr = PAGE_ALIGN(start_addr); + end_addr &= PAGE_MASK; + + start = start_addr; + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, start_addr, end_addr); for ( ; vma && vma->vm_start < end_addr; vma = vma->vm_next) { unsigned long end; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
