releases/2.6.38.2/mm-pagebuddy-and-mapcount-robustness.patch

From ef2b4b95a63a1d23958dcb99eb2c6898eddc87d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:16:35 +0100
Subject: mm: PageBuddy and mapcount robustness

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

commit ef2b4b95a63a1d23958dcb99eb2c6898eddc87d0 upstream.

Change the _mapcount value indicating PageBuddy from -2 to -128 for
more robusteness against page_mapcount() undeflows.

Use reset_page_mapcount instead of __ClearPageBuddy in bad_page to
ignore the previous retval of PageBuddy().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 include/linux/mm.h |   11 +++++++++--
 mm/page_alloc.c    |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -402,16 +402,23 @@ static inline void init_page_count(struc
 /*
  * PageBuddy() indicate that the page is free and in the buddy system
  * (see mm/page_alloc.c).
+ *
+ * PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE must be <= -2 but better not too close to
+ * -2 so that an underflow of the page_mapcount() won't be mistaken
+ * for a genuine PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE. -128 can be created very
+ * efficiently by most CPU architectures.
  */
+#define PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE (-128)
+
 static inline int PageBuddy(struct page *page)
 {
-	return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) == -2;
+	return atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) == PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE;
 }
 
 static inline void __SetPageBuddy(struct page *page)
 {
 	VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) != -1);
-	atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, -2);
+	atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE);
 }
 
 static inline void __ClearPageBuddy(struct page *page)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page)
 
 	/* Don't complain about poisoned pages */
 	if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
-		__ClearPageBuddy(page);
+		reset_page_mapcount(page); /* remove PageBuddy */
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page)
 	dump_stack();
 out:
 	/* Leave bad fields for debug, except PageBuddy could make trouble */
-	__ClearPageBuddy(page);
+	reset_page_mapcount(page); /* remove PageBuddy */
 	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE);
 }