linux-kernel - [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix clear_user

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:35:45 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix clear_user_highpage arguments

The virtual address space argument of clear_user_highpage is supposed to
be the virtual address where the page being cleared will eventually be
mapped. This allows architectures with virtually indexed caches a few
clever tricks.  That sort of trick falls over in painful ways if the
virtual address argument is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 84c795e..eab8c42 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static void clear_huge_page(struct page *page, unsigned long addr)
 	might_sleep();
 	for (i = 0; i < (HPAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE); i++) {
 		cond_resched();
-		clear_user_highpage(page + i, addr);
+		clear_user_highpage(page + i, addr + i * PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
 }
 
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