From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
osalvador@suse.de, mhocko@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 14:46:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606144643.4f3363db9499ebbf8f76e62e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155977193862.2443951.10284714500308539570.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:58:58 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> At namespace creation time there is the potential for the "expected to
> be zero" fields of a 'pfn' info-block to be filled with indeterminate
> data. While the kernel buffer is zeroed on allocation it is immediately
> overwritten by nd_pfn_validate() filling it with the current contents of
> the on-media info-block location. For fields like, 'flags' and the
> 'padding' it potentially means that future implementations can not rely
> on those fields being zero.
>
> In preparation to stop using the 'start_pad' and 'end_trunc' fields for
> section alignment, arrange for fields that are not explicitly
> initialized to be guaranteed zero. Bump the minor version to indicate it
> is safe to assume the 'padding' and 'flags' are zero. Otherwise, this
> corruption is expected to benign since all other critical fields are
> explicitly initialized.
>
> Fixes: 32ab0a3f5170 ("libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
The cc:stable in [11/12] seems odd. Is this independent of the other
patches? If so, shouldn't it be a standalone thing which can be
prioritized?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-06 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-05 21:57 [PATCH v9 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Dan Williams
2019-06-05 21:58 ` [PATCH v9 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields Dan Williams
2019-06-06 21:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-06-06 22:06 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-07 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2019-06-07 20:09 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-12 9:41 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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