The patch titled
Subject: dax: fix device-dax region base
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
dax-fix-device-dax-region-base.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: dax: fix device-dax region base
The data offset for a dax region needs to account for a reservation in the
resource range. Otherwise, device-dax is allowing mappings directly into
the memmap or device-info-block area with crash signatures like the
following:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff811ac851>] get_zone_device_page+0x11/0x30
Call Trace:
follow_devmap_pmd+0x298/0x2c0
follow_page_mask+0x275/0x530
__get_user_pages+0xe3/0x750
__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x1b2/0x450 [kvm]
? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x2c/0x120
? kvm_read_l1_tsc+0x55/0x60 [kvm]
try_async_pf+0x66/0x230 [kvm]
? kvm_host_page_size+0x90/0xa0 [kvm]
tdp_page_fault+0x130/0x280 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x5f/0xf0 [kvm]
handle_ept_violation+0x94/0x180 [kvm_intel]
vmx_handle_exit+0x1d3/0x1440 [kvm_intel]
? atomic_switch_perf_msrs+0x6f/0xa0 [kvm_intel]
? vmx_vcpu_run+0x2d1/0x490 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x81d/0x16a0 [kvm]
? wake_up_q+0x44/0x80
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x33c/0x620 [kvm]
? __vfs_write+0x37/0x160
do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x5d0
SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
Fixes: ab68f2622136 ("/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147205536732.1606.8994275381938837346.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Abhilash Kumar Mulumudi <m.abhilash-kumar@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dax/pmem.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/dax/pmem.c~dax-fix-device-dax-region-base drivers/dax/pmem.c
--- a/drivers/dax/pmem.c~dax-fix-device-dax-region-base
+++ a/drivers/dax/pmem.c
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ static int dax_pmem_probe(struct device
if (rc)
return rc;
+ /* adjust the dax_region resource to the start of data */
+ res.start += le64_to_cpu(pfn_sb->dataoff);
+
nd_region = to_nd_region(dev->parent);
dax_region = alloc_dax_region(dev, nd_region->id, &res,
le32_to_cpu(pfn_sb->align), addr, PFN_DEV|PFN_MAP);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are
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