The patch titled eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ecryptfs-use-page_alloc-not-kmalloc-to-get-a-page-of-memory.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption when testing eCryptfs. The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs was doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that as a nice page-aligned chunk of memory. But at least with SLUB debugging on, this is not always true, and the page we get from virt_to_page does not necessarily match the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE worth of memory we got from kmalloc. My simple testcase was 2 loops doing "rm -f fileX; cp /tmp/fileX ." for 2 different multi-megabyte files. With this change I no longer see the corruption. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c~ecryptfs-use-page_alloc-not-kmalloc-to-get-a-page-of-memory fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c~ecryptfs-use-page_alloc-not-kmalloc-to-get-a-page-of-memory +++ a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c @@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ int ecryptfs_encrypt_page(struct page *p { struct inode *ecryptfs_inode; struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat; - char *enc_extent_virt = NULL; - struct page *enc_extent_page; + char *enc_extent_virt; + struct page *enc_extent_page = NULL; loff_t extent_offset; int rc = 0; @@ -492,14 +492,14 @@ int ecryptfs_encrypt_page(struct page *p page->index); goto out; } - enc_extent_virt = kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, GFP_USER); - if (!enc_extent_virt) { + enc_extent_page = alloc_page(GFP_USER); + if (!enc_extent_page) { rc = -ENOMEM; ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "Error allocating memory for " "encrypted extent\n"); goto out; } - enc_extent_page = virt_to_page(enc_extent_virt); + enc_extent_virt = kmap(enc_extent_page); for (extent_offset = 0; extent_offset < (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE / crypt_stat->extent_size); extent_offset++) { @@ -527,7 +527,10 @@ int ecryptfs_encrypt_page(struct page *p } } out: - kfree(enc_extent_virt); + if (enc_extent_page) { + kunmap(enc_extent_page); + __free_page(enc_extent_page); + } return rc; } @@ -609,8 +612,8 @@ int ecryptfs_decrypt_page(struct page *p { struct inode *ecryptfs_inode; struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat; - char *enc_extent_virt = NULL; - struct page *enc_extent_page; + char *enc_extent_virt; + struct page *enc_extent_page = NULL; unsigned long extent_offset; int rc = 0; @@ -627,14 +630,14 @@ int ecryptfs_decrypt_page(struct page *p page->index); goto out; } - enc_extent_virt = kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, GFP_USER); - if (!enc_extent_virt) { + enc_extent_page = alloc_page(GFP_USER); + if (!enc_extent_page) { rc = -ENOMEM; ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "Error allocating memory for " "encrypted extent\n"); goto out; } - enc_extent_page = virt_to_page(enc_extent_virt); + enc_extent_virt = kmap(enc_extent_page); for (extent_offset = 0; extent_offset < (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE / crypt_stat->extent_size); extent_offset++) { @@ -662,7 +665,10 @@ int ecryptfs_decrypt_page(struct page *p } } out: - kfree(enc_extent_virt); + if (enc_extent_page) { + kunmap(enc_extent_page); + __free_page(enc_extent_page); + } return rc; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch -- 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