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    mm: Allow non-direct-map arguments to free_reserved_area() · 0d834328
    Dave Hansen authored
    
    
    free_reserved_area() takes pointers as arguments to show which addresses
    should be freed.  However, it does this in a somewhat ambiguous way.  If it
    gets a kernel direct map address, it always works.  However, if it gets an
    address that is part of the kernel image alias mapping, it can fail.
    
    It fails if all of the following happen:
     * The specified address is part of the kernel image alias
     * Poisoning is requested (forcing a memset())
     * The address is in a read-only portion of the kernel image
    
    The memset() fails on the read-only mapping, of course.
    free_reserved_area() *is* called both on the direct map and on kernel image
    alias addresses.  We've just lucked out thus far that the kernel image
    alias areas it gets used on are read-write.  I'm fairly sure this has been
    just a happy accident.
    
    It is quite easy to make free_reserved_area() work for all cases: just
    convert the address to a direct map address before doing the memset(), and
    do this unconditionally.  There is little chance of a regression here
    because we previously did a virt_to_page() on the address for the memset,
    so we know these are not highmem pages for which virt_to_page() would fail.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: keescook@google.com
    Cc: aarcange@redhat.com
    Cc: jgross@suse.com
    Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com
    Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: hughd@google.com
    Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
    Cc: bp@alien8.de
    Cc: luto@kernel.org
    Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802225826.1287AE3E@viggo.jf.intel.com
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