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ARM: 7438/1: fill possible PMD empty section gaps
authorNicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:28:57 +0000 (17:28 +0100)
committerRussell King <[email protected]>
Sun, 1 Jul 2012 13:21:35 +0000 (14:21 +0100)
commit19b52abe3c5d759661500a1dc810924369b2ad46
tree8a9746ff942ccc69c386773dd311ee465689453f
parent9973290ce20ace7cac8ad06f753468c0b826fd0f
ARM: 7438/1: fill possible PMD empty section gaps

On ARM with the 2-level page table format, a PMD entry is represented by
two consecutive section entries covering 2MB of virtual space.

However, static mappings always were allowed to use separate 1MB section
entries.  This means in practice that a static mapping may create half
populated PMDs via create_mapping().

Since commit 0536bdf33f (ARM: move iotable mappings within the vmalloc
region) those static mappings are located in the vmalloc area. We must
ensure no such half populated PMDs are accessible once vmalloc() or
ioremap() start looking at the vmalloc area for nearby free virtual
address ranges, or various things leading to a kernel crash will happen.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: "R, Sricharan" <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
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