[ 09/82] mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init()

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 00:47:21 EST


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

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From: KyongHo <pullip.cho@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Olav Haugan" <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1185,9 +1185,10 @@ 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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