2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> commit ef2b4b95a63a1d23958dcb99eb2c6898eddc87d0 upstream. Change the _mapcount value indicating PageBuddy from -2 to -128 for more robusteness against page_mapcount() undeflows. Use reset_page_mapcount instead of __ClearPageBuddy in bad_page to ignore the previous retval of PageBuddy(). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/linux/mm.h | 11 +++++++++-- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -402,16 +402,23 @@ static inline void init_page_count(struc /* * PageBuddy() indicate that the page is free and in the buddy system * (see mm/page_alloc.c). + * + * PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE must be <= -2 but better not too close to + * -2 so that an underflow of the page_mapcount() won't be mistaken + * for a genuine PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE. -128 can be created very + * efficiently by most CPU architectures. */ +#define PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE (-128) + static inline int PageBuddy(struct page *page) { - return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) == -2; + return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) == PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE; } static inline void __SetPageBuddy(struct page *page) { VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) != -1); - atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, -2); + atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE); } static inline void __ClearPageBuddy(struct page *page) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page) /* Don't complain about poisoned pages */ if (PageHWPoison(page)) { - __ClearPageBuddy(page); + reset_page_mapcount(page); /* remove PageBuddy */ return; } @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page) dump_stack(); out: /* Leave bad fields for debug, except PageBuddy could make trouble */ - __ClearPageBuddy(page); + reset_page_mapcount(page); /* remove PageBuddy */ add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE); } _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
