linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 130/131] powerpc/crashdump : Fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem

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Date:	Wed,  5 Mar 2014 14:24:14 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 130/131] powerpc/crashdump : Fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page

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

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From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit f5295bd8ea8a65dc5eac608b151386314cb978f1 upstream.

In copy_oldmem_page, the current check using max_pfn and min_low_pfn to
decide if the page is backed or not, is not valid when the memory layout is
not continuous.

This happens when running as a QEMU/KVM guest, where RTAS is mapped higher
in the memory. In that case max_pfn points to the end of RTAS, and a hole
between the end of the kdump kernel and RTAS is not backed by PTEs. As a
consequence, the kdump kernel is crashing in copy_oldmem_page when accessing
in a direct way the pages in that hole.

This fix relies on the memblock's service memblock_is_region_memory to
check if the read page is part or not of the directly accessible memory.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
index 779a78c..c16ceb1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash_dump.c
@@ -98,17 +98,19 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
 			size_t csize, unsigned long offset, int userbuf)
 {
 	void  *vaddr;
+	phys_addr_t paddr;
 
 	if (!csize)
 		return 0;
 
 	csize = min_t(size_t, csize, PAGE_SIZE);
+	paddr = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-	if ((min_low_pfn < pfn) && (pfn < max_pfn)) {
-		vaddr = __va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+	if (memblock_is_region_memory(paddr, csize)) {
+		vaddr = __va(paddr);
 		csize = copy_oldmem_vaddr(vaddr, buf, csize, offset, userbuf);
 	} else {
-		vaddr = __ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+		vaddr = __ioremap(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
 		csize = copy_oldmem_vaddr(vaddr, buf, csize, offset, userbuf);
 		iounmap(vaddr);
 	}
-- 
1.9.0

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