This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: zsmalloc: Ensure handle is never 0 on success
to the 3.12-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:
staging-zsmalloc-ensure-handle-is-never-0-on-success.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 67296874eb1cc80317bf2a8fba22b494e21eb29b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:30:41 -0800
Subject: staging: zsmalloc: Ensure handle is never 0 on success
From: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 67296874eb1cc80317bf2a8fba22b494e21eb29b upstream.
zsmalloc encodes a handle using the pfn and an object
index. On hardware platforms with physical memory starting
at 0x0 the pfn can be 0. This causes the encoded handle to be
0 and is incorrectly interpreted as an allocation failure.
This issue affects all current and future SoCs with physical
memory starting at 0x0. All MSM8974 SoCs which includes
Google Nexus 5 devices are affected.
To prevent this false error we ensure that the encoded handle
will not be 0 when allocation succeeds.
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
@@ -430,7 +430,12 @@ static struct page *get_next_page(struct
return next;
}
-/* Encode <page, obj_idx> as a single handle value */
+/*
+ * Encode <page, obj_idx> as a single handle value.
+ * On hardware platforms with physical memory starting at 0x0 the pfn
+ * could be 0 so we ensure that the handle will never be 0 by adjusting the
+ * encoded obj_idx value before encoding.
+ */
static void *obj_location_to_handle(struct page *page, unsigned long obj_idx)
{
unsigned long handle;
@@ -441,17 +446,21 @@ static void *obj_location_to_handle(stru
}
handle = page_to_pfn(page) << OBJ_INDEX_BITS;
- handle |= (obj_idx & OBJ_INDEX_MASK);
+ handle |= ((obj_idx + 1) & OBJ_INDEX_MASK);
return (void *)handle;
}
-/* Decode <page, obj_idx> pair from the given object handle */
+/*
+ * Decode <page, obj_idx> pair from the given object handle. We adjust the
+ * decoded obj_idx back to its original value since it was adjusted in
+ * obj_location_to_handle().
+ */
static void obj_handle_to_location(unsigned long handle, struct page **page,
unsigned long *obj_idx)
{
*page = pfn_to_page(handle >> OBJ_INDEX_BITS);
- *obj_idx = handle & OBJ_INDEX_MASK;
+ *obj_idx = (handle & OBJ_INDEX_MASK) - 1;
}
static unsigned long obj_idx_to_offset(struct page *page,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/staging-zsmalloc-ensure-handle-is-never-0-on-success.patch
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