From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 oops on shutdown
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:06:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061025.230652.71090033.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061025.005134.74748405.davem@davemloft.net>
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
> It's probably some sparc64 issue, maybe even some error wrt. freeing
> up init memory. I'll try to track it down. I'm actually quite
> curious what this bug is :-)
Yep, a sparc64 bug, I'll push this to Linus shortly...
commit 2506be0657c7bd1befdb616fb0e86d87c6a288cd
Author: David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Date: Wed Oct 25 22:33:07 2006 -0700
[SPARC64]: Fix memory corruption in pci_4u_free_consistent().
The second argument to free_npages() was being incorrectly
calculated, which would thus access far past the end of the
arena->map[] bitmap.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_iommu.c
index 82e5455..2e7f142 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_iommu.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_iommu.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static void pci_4u_free_consistent(struc
spin_lock_irqsave(&iommu->lock, flags);
- free_npages(iommu, dvma, npages);
+ free_npages(iommu, dvma - iommu->page_table_map_base, npages);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&iommu->lock, flags);
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