Re: [PATCH V4] mm/ioremap: Check virtual address alignment while creating huge mappings

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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 08:05:16AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Virtual address alignment is essential in ensuring correct clearing for all
> intermediate level pgtable entries and freeing associated pgtable pages. An
> unaligned address can end up randomly freeing pgtable page that potentially
> still contains valid mappings. Hence also check it's alignment along with
> existing phys_addr check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in V4:
> 
> - Added similar check for ioremap_try_huge_p4d() as per Toshi Kani

Sorry to be a pain, but in future please can you just resend the entire
series as a v4 (after giving it a few days for any other comments to come
in) if you make an update? It's a bit fiddly tracking which replies to which
individual patches need to be picked up, although I'm sure this varies
between maintainers.

No need to do anything this time, but just a small ask for future patches.

Will




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