From f9092f358bc2ec5367621478811f046f82873376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:57:45 -0700
Subject: kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory. The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER. The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.
This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.
I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch. Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem. -- Eric
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/kexec.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 59f3f0df35d..aef265325cd 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -753,8 +753,14 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(struct kimage *image,
*old = addr | (*old & ~PAGE_MASK);
/* The old page I have found cannot be a
- * destination page, so return it.
+ * destination page, so return it if it's
+ * gfp_flags honor the ones passed in.
*/
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGHMEM) &&
+ PageHighMem(old_page)) {
+ kimage_free_pages(old_page);
+ continue;
+ }
addr = old_addr;
page = old_page;
break;
--
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