Re: [PATCH] mm/nvdimm: Add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address

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Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon,  1 Jul 2019 19:10:38 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Architectures like powerpc use different address range to map ioremap
>> and vmalloc range. The memunmap() check used by the nvdimm layer was
>> wrongly using is_vmalloc_addr() to check for ioremap range which fails for
>> ppc64. This result in ppc64 not freeing the ioremap mapping. The side effect
>> of this is an unbind failure during module unload with papr_scm nvdimm driver
>
> The patch applies to 5.1.  Does it need a Fixes: and a Cc:stable?

Actually, we want it to be backported to an older kernel possibly one
that added papr-scm driver, b5beae5e224f ("powerpc/pseries: Add driver
for PAPR SCM regions"). But that doesn't apply easily. It does apply
without conflicts to 5.0

-aneesh




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