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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2006-11-14 02:03:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-11-14 09:09:27 -0800
commit68589bc353037f233fe510ad9ff432338c95db66 (patch)
treededc58ff66134f54796642917e2a2a26ac6802b0 /mm
parent69ae9e3ee4ce99140a7db424bebf55d8d180da2f (diff)
[PATCH] hugetlb: prepare_hugepage_range check offset too
(David:) If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example, because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path. But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path will call unmap_region() on it. That will eventually call down to the non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range(). On ppc64, at least, that will cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the same PUD. unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud entries. I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't have a machine to test it on. (Hugh:) prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from unmapping before it fails further down. PowerPC should apply the same prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do. Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge mappings into a separate region of the address space. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 497e502dfd6b..bdace87d7c01 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
* Check if the given range is hugepage aligned, and
* can be made suitable for hugepages.
*/
- ret = prepare_hugepage_range(addr, len);
+ ret = prepare_hugepage_range(addr, len, pgoff);
} else {
/*
* Ensure that a normal request is not falling in a