The patch titled Subject: lib/iommu-common.c: do not try to deref a null iommu->lazy_flush() pointer when n < pool->hint has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was iommu-common-do-not-try-to-deref-a-null-iommu-lazy_flush-pointer-when-n-pool-hint.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/iommu-common.c: do not try to deref a null iommu->lazy_flush() pointer when n < pool->hint The check for invoking iommu->lazy_flush() from iommu_tbl_range_alloc() has to be refactored so that we only call ->lazy_flush() if it is non-null. I had a sparc kernel that was crashing when I was trying to process some very large perf.data files- the crash happens when the scsi driver calls into dma_4v_map_sg and thus the iommu_tbl_range_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/iommu-common.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/iommu-common.c~iommu-common-do-not-try-to-deref-a-null-iommu-lazy_flush-pointer-when-n-pool-hint lib/iommu-common.c --- a/lib/iommu-common.c~iommu-common-do-not-try-to-deref-a-null-iommu-lazy_flush-pointer-when-n-pool-hint +++ a/lib/iommu-common.c @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, iomm static inline bool need_flush(struct iommu_map_table *iommu) { - return (iommu->lazy_flush != NULL && - (iommu->flags & IOMMU_NEED_FLUSH) != 0); + return ((iommu->flags & IOMMU_NEED_FLUSH) != 0); } static inline void set_flush(struct iommu_map_table *iommu) @@ -211,7 +210,8 @@ unsigned long iommu_tbl_range_alloc(stru goto bail; } } - if (n < pool->hint || need_flush(iommu)) { + if (iommu->lazy_flush && + (n < pool->hint || need_flush(iommu))) { clear_flush(iommu); iommu->lazy_flush(iommu); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html