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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-07-27 21:48:17 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-08-08 00:32:32 +1000
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powerpc/64s: Fix page table fragment refcount race vs speculative references
The page table fragment allocator uses the main page refcount racily with respect to speculative references. A customer observed a BUG due to page table page refcount underflow in the fragment allocator. This can be caused by the fragment allocator set_page_count stomping on a speculative reference, and then the speculative failure handler decrements the new reference, and the underflow eventually pops when the page tables are freed. Fix this by using a dedicated field in the struct page for the page table fragment allocator. Fixes: 5c1f6ee9a31c ("powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+ Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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