Out-of-tree user of remap_pfn_range hit kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:1112!
It passes an unrounded size to remap_pfn_range, which was okay before
2.6.12, but misses remap_pte_range's new end condition. An audit of
all the other ptwalks confirms that this is the only one so exposed.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
--- 2.6.12/mm/memory.c 2005-06-17 20:48:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/mm/memory.c 2005-06-21 20:31:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struc
{
pgd_t *pgd;
unsigned long next;
- unsigned long end = addr + size;
+ unsigned long end = addr + PAGE_ALIGN(size);
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
int err;
-
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