From 3d77b50c5874b7e923be946ba793644f82336b75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:34:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and calls flush_kernel_dcache_page() on pages in SG list after these pages are written to. Unfortunately, the commit may introduce a potential bug: - Before sending some SCSI commands, kmalloc() buffer may be passed to block layper, so flush_kernel_dcache_page() can see a slab page finally - According to cachetlb.txt, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is only called on "a user page", which surely can't be a slab page. - ARCH's implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() may use page mapping information to do optimization so page_mapping() will see the slab page, then VM_BUG_ON() is triggered. Aaro Koskinen reported the bug on ARM/kirkwood when DEBUG_VM is enabled, and this patch fixes the bug by adding test of '!PageSlab(miter->page)' before calling flush_kernel_dcache_page(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen Tested-by: Simon Baatz Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Aaro Koskinen Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/scatterlist.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index a685c8a79578..d16fa295ae1d 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -577,7 +577,8 @@ void sg_miter_stop(struct sg_mapping_iter *miter) miter->__offset += miter->consumed; miter->__remaining -= miter->consumed; - if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG) + if ((miter->__flags & SG_MITER_TO_SG) && + !PageSlab(miter->page)) flush_kernel_dcache_page(miter->page); if (miter->__flags & SG_MITER_ATOMIC) { -- 2.20.1