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Commit 687d366d authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range



commit 723a80dafed5c95889d48baab9aa433a6ffa0b4e upstream.

pmdp_collapse_flush() should be given the start address at which the huge
page is mapped, haddr: it was given addr, which at that point has been
used as a local variable, incremented to the end address of the extent.

Found by source inspection while chasing a hugepage locking bug, which I
then could not explain by this.  At first I thought this was very bad;
then saw that all of the page translations that were not flushed would
actually still point to the right pages afterwards, so harmless; then
realized that I know nothing of how different architectures and models
cache intermediate paging structures, so maybe it matters after all -
particularly since the page table concerned is immediately freed.

Much easier to fix than to think about.

Fixes: 27e1f827 ("khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.4+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008021204390.27773@eggly.anvils


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 8cdf6835
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