Patch "arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-account-for-sparsemem-section-alignment-when-choosing-vmemmap-offset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 36e5cd6b897e17d03008f81e075625d8e43e52d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:09:29 +0700
Subject: arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

commit 36e5cd6b897e17d03008f81e075625d8e43e52d0 upstream.

Commit dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear
region") fixed an issue where the struct page array would overflow into the
adjacent virtual memory region if system RAM was placed so high up in
physical memory that its addresses were not representable in the build time
configured virtual address size.

However, the fix failed to take into account that the vmemmap region needs
to be relatively aligned with respect to the sparsemem section size, so that
a sequence of page structs corresponding with a sparsemem section in the
linear region appears naturally aligned in the vmemmap region.

So round up vmemmap to sparsemem section size. Since this essentially moves
the projection of the linear region up in memory, also revert the reduction
of the size of the vmemmap region.

Fixes: dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region")
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Tested-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  * VMALLOC_END: extends to the available space below vmmemmap, PCI I/O space,
  *	fixed mappings and modules
  */
-#define VMEMMAP_SIZE		ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)
+#define VMEMMAP_SIZE		ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_KASAN
 #define VMALLOC_START		(VA_START)
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
 #define VMALLOC_END		(PAGE_OFFSET - PUD_SIZE - VMEMMAP_SIZE - SZ_64K)
 
 #define VMEMMAP_START		(VMALLOC_END + SZ_64K)
-#define vmemmap			((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (memstart_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT))
+#define vmemmap			((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - \
+				 SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN(memstart_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 
 #define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS	0UL
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are

queue-4.4/arm64-account-for-sparsemem-section-alignment-when-choosing-vmemmap-offset.patch