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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2007-05-27 05:18:22 (GMT) |
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committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-06-02 11:01:55 (GMT) |
commit | 6ad8d010b2f364b739020e514e61b6a73444464b (patch) | |
tree | bb6b10d3c1b2db68a8bca66a587fa2db0a8f2fd9 /arch/powerpc | |
parent | 988519acb3dbe7168276a36cbb8fd91fddbffaee (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-6ad8d010b2f364b739020e514e61b6a73444464b.tar.xz |
[POWERPC] Fix possible access to free pages
I think we have a subtle race on ppc64 with the tlb batching. The
common code expects tlb_flush() to actually flush any pending TLB
batch. It does that because it delays all page freeing until after
tlb_flush() is called, in order to ensure no stale reference to
those pages exist in any TLB, thus causing potential access to
the freed pages.
However, our tlb_flush only triggers the RCU for freeing page
table pages, it does not currently trigger a flush of a pending
TLB/hash batch, which is, I think, an error. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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