From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen: fix scrub_page()
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:14:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081117181422.GA8321@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4921AB44.4090706@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>> Secondly, we actually have a function called "clear_highpage()"
>> that does this, except it uses kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0). Which
>> is _probably better anyway, but I didn't check if there is some
>> magical reason why it wouldn't work.
>
> OK.
applied it with the changelog below to tip/x86/urgent, thanks guys!
AFAICS CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y could not possibly have worked before
(kunmapping the wrong address is a crasher), so there's little
practical risk from using an atomic kmap here.
Ingo
-------------->
>From 26a3e99160cfb06a0a33e25b9fb0d516e2cc680d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:35:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] xen: fix scrub_page()
Impact: fix guest kernel crash with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
Jens noticed that scrub_page() has a buggy unmap of the wrong
thing. (virtual address instead of page)
Linus pointed out that the whole scrub_page() code is an unnecessary
reimplementation of clear_highpage() to begin with.
Just use clear_highpage() rather than reimplementing it poorly.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 9 +--------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index a0fb5ea..526c191 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -122,14 +122,7 @@ static struct timer_list balloon_timer;
static void scrub_page(struct page *page)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
- if (PageHighMem(page)) {
- void *v = kmap(page);
- clear_page(v);
- kunmap(v);
- } else {
- void *v = page_address(page);
- clear_page(v);
- }
+ clear_highpage(page);
#endif
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 19:27 [PATCH] Fix kunmap() argument in sg_miter_stop Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-15 20:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-11-15 20:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-15 20:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 5:16 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-17 8:11 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 8:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-17 8:30 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-17 8:58 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 9:34 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-17 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 11:13 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 17:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-17 17:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-17 17:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-17 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 17:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-17 18:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-11-17 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-17 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 18:26 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-18 8:27 ` Ingo Molnar
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