[PATCH] try_to_unmap_cluster() passes out-of-bounds pte to pte_unmap()
authorWilliam Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Wed, 25 May 2005 02:31:09 +0000 (19:31 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Wed, 25 May 2005 03:08:13 +0000 (20:08 -0700)
try_to_unmap_cluster() does:
        for (pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
                        address < end; pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) {
...
}

pte_unmap(pte);

It may take a little staring to notice, but pte can actually fall off the
end of the pte page in this iteration, which makes life difficult for
kmap_atomic() and the users not expecting it to BUG().  Of course, we're
somewhat lucky in that arithmetic elsewhere in the function guarantees that
at least one iteration is made, lest this force larger rearrangements to be
made.  This issue and patch also apply to non-mm mainline and with trivial
adjustments, at least two related kernels.

Discovered during internal testing at Oracle.

Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/rmap.c

index a6203b4e12786f4bdbf9ad8aefbb0ae287c8a91a..9827409eb7c7ea4026e27b34fdaceacd909cabc3 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static void try_to_unmap_cluster(unsigned long cursor,
        pgd_t *pgd;
        pud_t *pud;
        pmd_t *pmd;
-       pte_t *pte;
+       pte_t *pte, *original_pte;
        pte_t pteval;
        struct page *page;
        unsigned long address;
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ static void try_to_unmap_cluster(unsigned long cursor,
        if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
                goto out_unlock;
 
-       for (pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
+       for (original_pte = pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
                        address < end; pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) {
 
                if (!pte_present(*pte))
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static void try_to_unmap_cluster(unsigned long cursor,
                (*mapcount)--;
        }
 
-       pte_unmap(pte);
+       pte_unmap(original_pte);
 out_unlock:
        spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 }