linux/arch/x86/mm
Andi Kleen f313e12308 x86: avoid theoretical vmalloc fault loop
Ajith Kumar noticed:

 I was going through the vmalloc fault handling for x86_64 and am unclear
 about the following lines in the vmalloc_fault() function.

 pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address);
 pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);

 Here the intention is to get the pgd corresponding to the current process
 and sync it up with the pgd in init_mm(obtained from pgd_offset_k).
 However, for kernel threads current->mm is NULL and hence pgd =
 pgd_offset(init_mm, address) = pgd_ref which means the fault handler
 returns without setting the pgd entry in the MM structure in the context
 of which the kernel thread has faulted.  This could lead to never-ending
 faults and busy looping of kernel threads like pdflush.  So, shouldn't the
 pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address); be pgd =
 pgd_offset(current->active_mm ?: &init_mm, address);

We can use active_mm unconditionally because it should be always set.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12 19:24:21 +01:00
..
dump_pagetables.c x86: another user of PTE_FLAGS_MASK 2008-08-20 12:38:41 +02:00
extable.c x86: unify extable_{32|64}.c 2008-01-30 13:31:41 +01:00
fault.c x86: avoid theoretical vmalloc fault loop 2009-01-12 19:24:21 +01:00
gup.c x86: two trivial sparse annotations 2008-10-29 08:02:28 +01:00
highmem_32.c Export kmap_atomic_pfn for DRM-GEM. 2008-10-18 07:10:12 +10:00
hugetlbpage.c x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit 2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
init_32.c resource: allow MMIO exclusivity for device drivers 2009-01-07 11:12:32 -08:00
init_64.c resource: allow MMIO exclusivity for device drivers 2009-01-07 11:12:32 -08:00
iomap_32.c x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps 2008-10-31 10:12:38 +01:00
ioremap.c x86: soften multi-BAR mapping sanity check warning message 2008-12-12 09:22:26 +01:00
k8topology_64.c x86: k8 numa register active regions later 2009-01-06 13:21:21 +01:00
kmmio.c - fix mmioftrace + rcu merge interaction 2008-05-25 09:51:43 +02:00
Makefile Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
memtest.c x86: memtest fix use of reserve_early() 2008-10-22 17:08:06 +02:00
mmap.c x86: unify mmap_{32|64}.c 2008-01-30 13:31:10 +01:00
mmio-mod.c mmiotrace: remove left-over marker cruft 2008-10-14 10:37:17 +02:00
numa_32.c trivial: replace last usages of __FUNCTION__ in kernel 2009-01-07 15:48:54 -08:00
numa_64.c x86: prepare for cpumask iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids 2008-12-16 17:40:58 -08:00
pageattr-test.c x86: make sure the CPA test code's use of _PAGE_UNUSED1 is obvious 2008-09-05 17:09:57 +02:00
pageattr.c x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo 2008-11-06 15:27:37 +01:00
pat.c x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new() 2008-12-24 10:40:19 +01:00
pf_in.c x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding 2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
pf_in.h x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/. 2008-05-24 11:25:37 +02:00
pgtable_32.c i386: vmalloc size fix 2008-08-21 10:13:21 +02:00
pgtable.c x86: pgd_{c,d}tor() cleanup 2008-09-06 19:47:09 +02:00
srat_32.c x86: don't call e820_regiter_active_regions if out of range on node 2008-08-14 11:35:52 +02:00
srat_64.c x86: prepare for cpumask iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids 2008-12-16 17:40:58 -08:00
testmmiotrace.c x86 mmiotrace: implement mmiotrace_printk() 2008-10-14 10:37:11 +02:00