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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-16 01:40:00 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-15 19:30:19 -0700
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mm: sparsemem memory_present() fix
Fix memory corruption and crash on 32-bit x86 systems. If a !PAE x86 kernel is booted on a 32-bit system with more than 4GB of RAM, then we call memory_present() with a start/end that goes outside the scope of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. That causes this loop to happily walk over the limit of the sparse memory section map: for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) { unsigned long section = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn); struct mem_section *ms; sparse_index_init(section, nid); set_section_nid(section, nid); ms = __nr_to_section(section); if (!ms->section_mem_map) ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) | SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT; 'ms' will be out of bounds and we'll corrupt a small amount of memory by encoding the node ID and writing SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT (==0x1) over it. The corruption might happen when encoding a non-zero node ID, or due to the SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT which is 0x1: mmzone.h:#define SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT (1UL<<0) The fix is to sanity check anything the architecture passes to sparsemem. This bug seems to be rather old (as old as sparsemem support itself), but the exact incarnation depended on random details like configs, which made this bug more prominent in v2.6.25-to-be. An additional enhancement might be to print a warning about ignored or trimmed memory ranges. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@sun.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/sparse.c')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index f6a43c09c322..98d6b39c3472 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -149,8 +149,18 @@ static inline int sparse_early_nid(struct mem_section *section)
/* Record a memory area against a node. */
void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
+ unsigned long max_arch_pfn = 1UL << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS-PAGE_SHIFT);
unsigned long pfn;
+ /*
+ * Sanity checks - do not allow an architecture to pass
+ * in larger pfns than the maximum scope of sparsemem:
+ */
+ if (start >= max_arch_pfn)
+ return;
+ if (end >= max_arch_pfn)
+ end = max_arch_pfn;
+
start &= PAGE_SECTION_MASK;
for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
unsigned long section = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);