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author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2020-10-31 11:43:45 +0200 |
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committer | Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> | 2020-11-04 10:42:57 +0200 |
commit | b9bc36704cca500e2b41be4c5bf615c1d7ddc3ce (patch) | |
tree | 16687fb5437c2cc2d7bcd6ea5d41d525a6817b17 /include | |
parent | 4ef8451b332662d004df269d4cdeb7d9f31419b5 (diff) | |
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ARM, xtensa: highmem: avoid clobbering non-page aligned memory reservations
free_highpages() iterates over the free memblock regions in high
memory, and marks each page as available for the memory management
system.
Until commit cddb5ddf2b76 ("arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of
high memory pages") it rounded beginning of each region upwards and end of
each region downwards.
However, after that commit free_highmem() rounds the beginning and end of
each region downwards, and we may end up freeing a page that is
memblock_reserve()d, resulting in memory corruption.
Restore the original rounding of the region boundaries to avoid freeing
reserved pages.
Fixes: cddb5ddf2b76 ("arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of high memory pages")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029110334.4118-1-ardb@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201031094345.6984-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
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