From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, zhangbo_a@xiaomi.com
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Ensure we free the final level on" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:59:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127115900.GG2390@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14538773031129@kroah.com>
Hi Greg,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:48:23PM -0800, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
Do you have the conflict handy? It applies to 4.4 here, so I guess its
somehow conflicting with another -stable patch, but I couldn't spot it.
Will
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
> From 12c2ab09571e8aae3a87da2a4a452632a5fac1e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:08:12 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Ensure we free the final level on
> teardown
>
> When tearing down page tables, we return early for the final level
> since we know that we won't have any table pointers to follow.
> Unfortunately, this also means that we forget to free the final level,
> so we end up leaking memory.
>
> Fix the issue by always freeing the current level, but just don't bother
> to iterate over the ptes if we're at the final level.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Zhang Bo <zhangbo_a@xiaomi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> index 937ba23e48d7..8bbcbfe7695c 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
> @@ -404,17 +404,18 @@ static void __arm_lpae_free_pgtable(struct arm_lpae_io_pgtable *data, int lvl,
> arm_lpae_iopte *start, *end;
> unsigned long table_size;
>
> - /* Only leaf entries at the last level */
> - if (lvl == ARM_LPAE_MAX_LEVELS - 1)
> - return;
> -
> if (lvl == ARM_LPAE_START_LVL(data))
> table_size = data->pgd_size;
> else
> table_size = ARM_LPAE_GRANULE(data);
>
> start = ptep;
> - end = (void *)ptep + table_size;
> +
> + /* Only leaf entries at the last level */
> + if (lvl == ARM_LPAE_MAX_LEVELS - 1)
> + end = ptep;
> + else
> + end = (void *)ptep + table_size;
>
> while (ptep != end) {
> arm_lpae_iopte pte = *ptep++;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-27 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-27 6:48 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Ensure we free the final level on" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2016-01-27 11:59 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-01-27 17:57 ` Greg KH
2016-01-27 18:28 ` Will Deacon
2016-02-14 20:52 ` Greg KH
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