Subject: xen: Fix grant table bug From: Michael Abd-El-Malek A PV OS has two grant table data structures: the grant table itself and a free list. The free list is composed of an array of pages, which grow dynamically as the guest OS requires more grants. While the grant table contains 8-byte entries, the free list contains 4-byte entries. So we have half as many pages in the free list than in the grant table. There was a bug in the free list allocation code. The free list was indexed as if it was the same size as the grant table. But it's only half as large. So memory got corrupted, and I was seeing crashes in the slab allocator later on. Taken from: http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/4018c0da3360 Signed-off-by: Michael Abd-El-Malek Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge --- drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) =================================================================== --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c @@ -381,11 +381,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gnttab_cancel_free_callback); static int grow_gnttab_list(unsigned int more_frames) { unsigned int new_nr_grant_frames, extra_entries, i; + unsigned int nr_glist_frames, new_nr_glist_frames; new_nr_grant_frames = nr_grant_frames + more_frames; extra_entries = more_frames * GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME; - for (i = nr_grant_frames; i < new_nr_grant_frames; i++) { + nr_glist_frames = (nr_grant_frames * GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME + RPP - 1) / RPP; + new_nr_glist_frames = + (new_nr_grant_frames * GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME + RPP - 1) / RPP; + for (i = nr_glist_frames; i < new_nr_glist_frames; i++) { gnttab_list[i] = (grant_ref_t *)__get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC); if (!gnttab_list[i]) goto grow_nomem; @@ -407,7 +411,7 @@ static int grow_gnttab_list(unsigned int more_frames) return 0; grow_nomem: - for ( ; i >= nr_grant_frames; i--) + for ( ; i >= nr_glist_frames; i--) free_page((unsigned long) gnttab_list[i]); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -530,7 +534,7 @@ static int gnttab_expand(unsigned int req_entries) static int __devinit gnttab_init(void) { int i; - unsigned int max_nr_glist_frames; + unsigned int max_nr_glist_frames, nr_glist_frames; unsigned int nr_init_grefs; if (!is_running_on_xen()) @@ -543,15 +547,15 @@ static int __devinit gnttab_init(void) * grant reference free list on the current hypervisor. */ max_nr_glist_frames = (boot_max_nr_grant_frames * - GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME / - (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(grant_ref_t))); + GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME / RPP); gnttab_list = kmalloc(max_nr_glist_frames * sizeof(grant_ref_t *), GFP_KERNEL); if (gnttab_list == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - for (i = 0; i < nr_grant_frames; i++) { + nr_glist_frames = (nr_grant_frames * GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME + RPP - 1) / RPP; + for (i = 0; i < nr_glist_frames; i++) { gnttab_list[i] = (grant_ref_t *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (gnttab_list[i] == NULL) goto ini_nomem; -- _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel