From: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:13:09 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86 PAT: remove PFNMAP type on track_pfn_vma_new() error X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a36706131182f5507d1e2cfbf391b0fa8d72203c;p=linux-beck.git x86 PAT: remove PFNMAP type on track_pfn_vma_new() error Impact: fix (harmless) double-free of memtype entries and avoid warning On track_pfn_vma_new() failure, reset the vm_flags so that there will be no second cleanup happening when upper level routines call unmap_vmas(). This patch fixes part of the bug reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123108883716357&w=2 Specifically the error message: X:5010 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d0101000 Is due to multiple frees on error path, will not happen with the patch below. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index c2d4c477e5bb..d3ee2ea5615c 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1672,8 +1672,14 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP; err = track_pfn_vma_new(vma, prot, pfn, PAGE_ALIGN(size)); - if (err) + if (err) { + /* + * To indicate that track_pfn related cleanup is not + * needed from higher level routine calling unmap_vmas + */ + vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP); return -EINVAL; + } BUG_ON(addr >= end); pfn -= addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;