This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 7628/1: head.S: map one extra section for the ATAG/DTB area
to the 3.7-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:
arm-7628-1-head.s-map-one-extra-section-for-the-atag-dtb-area.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 6f16f4998f98e42e3f2dedf663cfb691ff0324af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:51:32 +0100
Subject: ARM: 7628/1: head.S: map one extra section for the ATAG/DTB area
From: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
commit 6f16f4998f98e42e3f2dedf663cfb691ff0324af upstream.
We currently use a temporary 1MB section aligned to a 1MB boundary for
mapping the provided device tree until the final page table is created.
However, if the device tree happens to cross that 1MB boundary, the end
of it remains unmapped and the kernel crashes when it attempts to access
it. Given no restriction on the location of that DTB, it could end up
with only a few bytes mapped at the end of a section.
Solve this issue by mapping two consecutive sections.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tomasz Figa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/arm/kernel/head.S | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ __create_page_tables:
/*
* Then map boot params address in r2 if specified.
+ * We map 2 sections in case the ATAGs/DTB crosses a section boundary.
*/
mov r0, r2, lsr #SECTION_SHIFT
movs r0, r0, lsl #SECTION_SHIFT
@@ -253,6 +254,8 @@ __create_page_tables:
addne r3, r3, #PAGE_OFFSET
addne r3, r4, r3, lsr #(SECTION_SHIFT - PMD_ORDER)
orrne r6, r7, r0
+ strne r6, [r3], #1 << PMD_ORDER
+ addne r6, r6, #1 << SECTION_SHIFT
strne r6, [r3]
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LL
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.7/arm-7628-1-head.s-map-one-extra-section-for-the-atag-dtb-area.patch
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