This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init()
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-fix-faulty-initialization-in-vmalloc_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From dbda591d920b4c7692725b13e3f68ecb251e9080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KyongHo <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:06:49 -0700
Subject: mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init()
From: KyongHo <[email protected]>
commit dbda591d920b4c7692725b13e3f68ecb251e9080 upstream.
The transfer of ->flags causes some of the static mapping virtual
addresses to be prematurely freed (before the mapping is removed) because
VM_LAZY_FREE gets "set" if tmp->flags has VM_IOREMAP set. This might
cause subsequent vmalloc/ioremap calls to fail because it might allocate
one of the freed virtual address ranges that aren't unmapped.
va->flags has different types of flags from tmp->flags. If a region with
VM_IOREMAP set is registered with vm_area_add_early(), it will be removed
by __purge_vmap_area_lazy().
Fix vmalloc_init() to correctly initialize vmap_area for the given
vm_struct.
Also initialise va->vm. If it is not set, find_vm_area() for the early
vm regions will always fail.
Signed-off-by: KyongHo Cho <[email protected]>
Cc: "Olav Haugan" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1185,9 +1185,10 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void)
/* Import existing vmlist entries. */
for (tmp = vmlist; tmp; tmp = tmp->next) {
va = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmap_area), GFP_NOWAIT);
- va->flags = tmp->flags | VM_VM_AREA;
+ va->flags = VM_VM_AREA;
va->va_start = (unsigned long)tmp->addr;
va->va_end = va->va_start + tmp->size;
+ va->vm = tmp;
__insert_vmap_area(va);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/mm-fix-faulty-initialization-in-vmalloc_init.patch
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