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authorRobert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org>2008-02-04 22:29:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:18 -0800
commit5dc331852848a38ca00a2817e5b98a1d0561b116 (patch)
treec306874d0194ecf88c2073a042e6f932e710f67f /Documentation
parenta7f75e25860ac0a7b70cf6e14c37618d2d2bb890 (diff)
mm: don't allow ioremapping of ranges larger than vmalloc space
When running with a 16M IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER (on armv7) we found that the vmlist search routine in __get_vm_area_node can mistakenly allow a driver to ioremap a range larger than vmalloc space. If at the time of the ioremap all existing vmlist areas sit below the determined alignment then the search routine continues past all entries and exits the for loop - straight into the found: label - without ever testing for integer wrapping or that the requested size fits. We were seeing a driver successfully ioremap 128M of flash even though there was only 120M of vmalloc space. From that point the system was left with the remainder of the first 16M of space to vmalloc/ioremap within. Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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