This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SUNRPC: Fix memory corruption issue on 32-bit highmem systems
to the 3.4-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:
sunrpc-fix-memory-corruption-issue-on-32-bit-highmem-systems.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 347e2233b7667e336d9f671f1a52dfa3f0416e2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:35:13 -0400
Subject: SUNRPC: Fix memory corruption issue on 32-bit highmem systems
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 347e2233b7667e336d9f671f1a52dfa3f0416e2c upstream.
Some architectures, such as ARM-32 do not return the same base address
when you call kmap_atomic() twice on the same page.
This causes problems for the memmove() call in the XDR helper routine
"_shift_data_right_pages()", since it defeats the detection of
overlapping memory ranges, and has been seen to corrupt memory.
The fix is to distinguish between the case where we're doing an
inter-page copy or not. In the former case of we know that the memory
ranges cannot possibly overlap, so we can additionally micro-optimise
by replacing memmove() with memcpy().
Reported-by: Mark Young <MYoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Matt Craighead <mcraighead@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Matt Craighead <mcraighead@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/xdr.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
@@ -233,10 +233,13 @@ _shift_data_right_pages(struct page **pa
pgfrom_base -= copy;
vto = kmap_atomic(*pgto);
- vfrom = kmap_atomic(*pgfrom);
- memmove(vto + pgto_base, vfrom + pgfrom_base, copy);
+ if (*pgto != *pgfrom) {
+ vfrom = kmap_atomic(*pgfrom);
+ memcpy(vto + pgto_base, vfrom + pgfrom_base, copy);
+ kunmap_atomic(vfrom);
+ } else
+ memmove(vto + pgto_base, vto + pgfrom_base, copy);
flush_dcache_page(*pgto);
- kunmap_atomic(vfrom);
kunmap_atomic(vto);
} while ((len -= copy) != 0);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/sunrpc-fix-memory-corruption-issue-on-32-bit-highmem-systems.patch
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