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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-10-27 15:32:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-27 18:03:05 -0700
commit20273941f2129aa5a432796d98a276ed73d60782 (patch)
tree85da0d951ac10f239f81ad7f69559fdeb692095b /arch/mips/mm/highmem.c
parenta8e23a291852cd7c4fb5ca696dbb93912185ad10 (diff)
downloadlinux-20273941f2129aa5a432796d98a276ed73d60782.tar.gz
mm: fix race in kunmap_atomic()
Christoph reported a nice splat which illustrated a race in the new stack
based kmap_atomic implementation.

The problem is that we pop our stack slot before we're completely done
resetting its state -- in particular clearing the PTE (sometimes that's
CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM).  If an interrupt happens before we actually clear
the PTE used for the last slot, that interrupt can reuse the slot in a
dirty state, which triggers a BUG in kmap_atomic().

Fix this by introducing kmap_atomic_idx() which reports the current slot
index without actually releasing it and use that to find the PTE and delay
the _pop() until after we're completely done.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/mm/highmem.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/mm/highmem.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/highmem.c b/arch/mips/mm/highmem.c
index 1e69b1fb4b85..3634c7ea06ac 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/highmem.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void __kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	type = kmap_atomic_idx_pop();
+	type = kmap_atomic_idx();
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM
 	{
 		int idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR * smp_processor_id();
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ void __kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr)
 		local_flush_tlb_one(vaddr);
 	}
 #endif
+	kmap_atomic_idx_pop();
 	pagefault_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kunmap_atomic);