[235/264] powerpc: Fix oops when echoing bad values to /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Nov 09 2011 - 22:58:33 EST


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

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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a11940978bd598e65996b4f807cf4904793f7025 upstream.

If we echo an address the hypervisor doesn't like to
/sys/devices/system/memory/probe we oops the box:

# echo 0x10000000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:541!

The backtrace is:

create_section_mapping
arch_add_memory
add_memory
memory_probe_store
sysdev_class_store
sysfs_write_file
vfs_write
SyS_write

In create_section_mapping we BUG if htab_bolt_mapping returned
an error. A better approach is to return an error which will
propagate back to userspace.

Rerunning the test with this patch applied:

# echo 0x10000000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 6 +++---
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-extern void create_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+extern int create_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
extern int remove_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern int hot_add_scn_to_nid(unsigned long scn_addr);
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -534,11 +534,11 @@ static unsigned long __init htab_get_tab
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-void create_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+int create_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
- BUG_ON(htab_bolt_mapping(start, end, __pa(start),
+ return htab_bolt_mapping(start, end, __pa(start),
pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL), mmu_linear_psize,
- mmu_kernel_ssize));
+ mmu_kernel_ssize);
}

int remove_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start,
pgdata = NODE_DATA(nid);

start = (unsigned long)__va(start);
- create_section_mapping(start, start + size);
+ if (create_section_mapping(start, start + size))
+ return -EINVAL;

/* this should work for most non-highmem platforms */
zone = pgdata->node_zones;


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