linux-kernel - [ 19/20] mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc

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Message-Id: <20120614235645.932553729@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:57:03 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@...sung.com>,
	"Olav Haugan" <ohaugan@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [ 19/20] mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init()

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: KyongHo <pullip.cho@...sung.com>

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 <pullip.cho@...sung.com>
Cc: "Olav Haugan" <ohaugan@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmalloc.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1174,9 +1174,10 @@ 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);
 	}

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