mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area
commita03567653b63fc938c5179bed77a868e82f179ef
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:58:26 +0000 (30 10:58 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:20:35 +0000 (10 10:20 -0700)
tree39cd6172d1ae17d5c736dfee94a0a5f1b943fab6
parent4e4a55ada236bf7d10669a2732c6f964bcfdba8d
mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area

commit de51257aa301652876ab6e8f13ea4eadbe4a3846 upstream.

Debian's ia64 autobuilders have been seeing kernel freeze or reboot
when running the gdb testsuite (Debian bug 588574): dannf bisected to
2.6.32 62eede62dafb4a6633eae7ffbeb34c60dba5e7b1 "mm: ZERO_PAGE without
PTE_SPECIAL"; and reproduced it with gdb's gcore on a simple target.

I'd missed updating the gate_vma handling in __get_user_pages(): that
happens to use vm_normal_page() (nowadays failing on the zero page),
yet reported success even when it failed to get a page - boom when
access_process_vm() tried to copy that to its intermediate buffer.

Fix this, resisting cleanups: in particular, leave it for now reporting
success when not asked to get any pages - very probably safe to change,
but let's not risk it without testing exposure.

Why did ia64 crash with 16kB pages, but succeed with 64kB pages?
Because setup_gate() pads each 64kB of its gate area with zero pages.

Reported-by: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Bisected-by: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/memory.c