Hong H. Pham cf77ee5436 powerpc: Fix PTE page address mismatch in pgtable ctor/dtor ... In pte_alloc_one(), pgtable_page_ctor() is passed an address that has not been converted by page_address() to the newly allocated PTE page. When the PTE is freed, __pte_free_tlb() calls pgtable_page_dtor() with an address to the PTE page that has been converted by page_address(). The mismatch in the PTE's page address causes pgtable_page_dtor() to access invalid memory, so resources for that PTE (such as the page lock) is not properly cleaned up. On PPC32, only SMP kernels are affected. On PPC64, only SMP kernels with 4K page size are affected. This bug was introduced by commit d614bb0412 "powerpc: Move the pte free routines from common header". On a preempt-rt kernel, a spinlock is dynamically allocated for each PTE in pgtable_page_ctor(). When the PTE is freed, calling pgtable_page_dtor() with a mismatched page address causes a memory leak, as the pointer to the PTE's spinlock is bogus. On mainline, there isn't any immediately obvious symptoms, but the problem still exists here. Fixes: d614bb0412 "powerpc: Move the pte free routes from common header" Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.10+ Signed-off-by: Hong H. Pham <hong.pham@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>		2013-12-10 11:25:05 +11:00
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asm	powerpc: Fix PTE page address mismatch in pgtable ctor/dtor	2013-12-10 11:25:05 +11:00
uapi/asm	Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC	2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00