lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:34:17 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:02:06 +0000 (14:02 +0000)
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>
lib/scatterlist.c

index 4ceb05d..2ffcb3c 100644 (file)
@@ -419,7 +419,8 @@ void sg_miter_stop(struct sg_mapping_iter *miter)
        if (miter->addr) {
                miter->__offset += miter->consumed;
 
-               if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG)
+               if ((miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG) &&
+                   !PageSlab(miter->page))
                        flush_kernel_dcache_page(miter->page);
 
                if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_ATOMIC) {