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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>2013-10-31 16:34:17 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-11-28 14:02:06 +0000
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lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page
commit 3d77b50c5874b7e923be946ba793644f82336b75 upstream. Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and calls flush_kernel_dcache_page() on pages in SG list after these pages are written to. Unfortunately, the commit may introduce a potential bug: - Before sending some SCSI commands, kmalloc() buffer may be passed to block layper, so flush_kernel_dcache_page() can see a slab page finally - According to cachetlb.txt, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is only called on "a user page", which surely can't be a slab page. - ARCH's implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() may use page mapping information to do optimization so page_mapping() will see the slab page, then VM_BUG_ON() is triggered. Aaro Koskinen reported the bug on ARM/kirkwood when DEBUG_VM is enabled, and this patch fixes the bug by adding test of '!PageSlab(miter->page)' before calling flush_kernel_dcache_page(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Tested-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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