This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: mm: avoid calling apply_to_page_range on empty range to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-mm-avoid-calling-apply_to_page_range-on-empty-range.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 57adec866c0440976c96a4b8f5b59fb411b1cacb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Mika=20Penttil=C3=A4?= <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:47:25 +0000 Subject: arm64: mm: avoid calling apply_to_page_range on empty range MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 57adec866c0440976c96a4b8f5b59fb411b1cacb upstream. Calling apply_to_page_range with an empty range results in a BUG_ON from the core code. This can be triggered by trying to load the st_drv module with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX enabled: kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:1874! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 3 PID: 1764 Comm: insmod Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1+ #2 Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r0) (DT) task: ffffffc9763b8000 ti: ffffffc975af8000 task.ti: ffffffc975af8000 PC is at apply_to_page_range+0x2cc/0x2d0 LR is at change_memory_common+0x80/0x108 This patch fixes the issue by making change_memory_common (called by the set_memory_* functions) a NOP when numpages == 0, therefore avoiding the erroneous call to apply_to_page_range and bringing us into line with x86 and s390. Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ static int change_memory_common(unsigned if (end < MODULES_VADDR || end >= MODULES_END) return -EINVAL; + if (!numpages) + return 0; + data.set_mask = set_mask; data.clear_mask = clear_mask; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/arm64-mm-avoid-calling-apply_to_page_range-on-empty-range.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html