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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
Cc: paul.burton@imgtec.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix HIGHMEM crash in __update_cache().
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:47:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150410134711.GC21107@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428672084-20676-1-git-send-email-larper@axis.com>

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:21:24PM +0200, Lars Persson wrote:

> Commit 8b5fe5e54b47 ("MIPS: Fix race condition in lazy cache flushing.")
> triggered NULL pointer dereferences on systems with HIGHMEM.
> 
> The problem was caused by not clearing the PG_dcache_dirty flag in
> flush_icache_page() and thus we enter __update_cache() that lacks
> support for HIGHMEM.

Thanks, I've folded this patch into the original 8b5fe5e54b47 commit.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-10 13:21 [PATCH] MIPS: Fix HIGHMEM crash in __update_cache() Lars Persson
2015-04-10 13:47 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2015-04-10 14:31   ` Lars Persson

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