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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bug in order>0 page allocations with !CONFIG_MMU
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:28:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19972.1099578526@redhat.com> (raw)


Hi,

I've found that this:

	[mm/page_alloc.c]
	static inline void set_page_refs(struct page *page, int order)
	{
	#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
		set_page_count(page, 1);
	#else
		int i;

		/*
		 * We need to reference all the pages for this order, otherwise if
		 * anyone accesses one of the pages with (get/put) it will be freed.
		 */
		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
			set_page_count(page+i, 1);
	#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
	}

Causes problems if !CONFIG_MMU because __free_pages_ok()/free_pages_check()
reports a bad page on the second page when it comes time to free it:

	Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'events/0', page c08132e0)
	flags:0x20000000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:1

Why is doing this necessary at all? No one should be touching the individual
pages of a block allocation. The kernel should defend itself against
userspace trying to munmap part of a multipage mmap.

I think this should be:

	static inline void set_page_refs(struct page *page, int order)
	{
		set_page_count(page, 1);
	}

It seems to work for me. If no one disagrees, I'll give akpm a patch for this.

David

             reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-04 14:28 David Howells [this message]
2004-11-05  5:15 ` [uClinux-dev] bug in order>0 page allocations with !CONFIG_MMU Greg Ungerer
2004-11-05 12:11   ` David Howells

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