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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
	Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range()
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:00:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12082680403770-git-send-email-hannes@saeurebad.de> (raw)

After the loop in walk_pte_range() pte might point to the first address
after the pmd it walks.  The pte_unmap() is then applied to something
bad.

Spotted by Roel Kluin and Andreas Schwab.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
CC: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
CC: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
CC: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

A bug is unlikely, though.  kunmap_atomic() looks up the kmap entry by
map-type instead of the address the pte points.  So the worst thing I
could find with a quick grep was that a wrong TLB entry is being
flushed.  Still, the code is wrong :)

diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index 1cf1417..cf3c004 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		err = walk->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, private);
 		if (err)
 		       break;
-	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
+	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end && pte++);
 
 	pte_unmap(pte);
 	return err;

             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15 14:00 Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-04-15 15:36 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-04-15 16:16   ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Weiner
2008-04-15 21:34     ` Matt Mackall
2008-04-16  7:48     ` Mikael Pettersson

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