2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds commit 94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c upstream The iov_iter_advance() function would look at the iov->iov_len entry even though it might have iterated over the whole array, and iov was pointing past the end. This would cause DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to trigger a kernel page fault if the allocation was at the end of a page, and the next page was unallocated. The quick fix is to just change the order of the tests: check that there is any iovec data left before we check the iov entry itself. Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding this case, and testing the fix. Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/filemap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i * The !iov->iov_len check ensures we skip over unlikely * zero-length segments (without overruning the iovec). */ - while (bytes || unlikely(!iov->iov_len && i->count)) { + while (bytes || unlikely(i->count && !iov->iov_len)) { int copy; copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - base); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/