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author | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> | 2015-09-08 15:02:12 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700 |
commit | 1b4ace4141db1ddc46f6c9915086dd5e18d7154d (patch) | |
tree | b76bfc0fddf6ab377647b0094c70eee83d2365b8 /mm/kmemcheck.c | |
parent | c5b4e1b02f2a0c2309ecd58a235a2f5ee4eb0074 (diff) | |
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bootmem: avoid freeing to bootmem after bootmem is done
Bootmem isn't popular any more, but some architectures still use it, and
freeing to bootmem after calling free_all_bootmem_core() can end up
scribbling over random memory. Instead, make sure the kernel generates
a warning in this case by ensuring the node_bootmem_map field is
non-NULL when are freeing or marking bootmem.
An instance of this bug was just fixed in the tile architecture ("tile:
use free_bootmem_late() for initrd") and catching this case more widely
seems like a good thing.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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