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authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>2011-05-10 19:28:33 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-05-19 14:30:43 +1000
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powerpc/kexec: Fix memory corruption from unallocated slaves
Commit 1fc711f7ffb01089efc58042cfdbac8573d1b59a (powerpc/kexec: Fix race in kexec shutdown) moved the write to signal the cpu had exited the kernel from before the transition to real mode in kexec_smp_wait to kexec_wait. Unfornately it missed that kexec_wait is used both by cpus leaving the kernel and by secondary slave cpus that were not allocated a paca for what ever reason -- they could be beyond nr_cpus or not described in the current device tree for whatever reason (for example, kexec-load was not refreshed after a cpu hotplug operation). Cpus coming through that path they will write to paca[NR_CPUS] which is beyond the space allocated for the paca data and overwrite memory not allocated to pacas but very likely still real mode accessable). Move the write back to kexec_smp_wait, which is used only by cpus that found their paca, but after the transition to real mode. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # (1fc711f was backported to 2.6.32) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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