Revision f9092f358bc2ec5367621478811f046f82873376 authored by Jonathan Steel on 22 September 2008, 20:57:45 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 September 2008, 15:09:14 UTC
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading a kernel image into memory. The fault occurs because a page is requested by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER. The high mem page is returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel page being a page that will shortly be copied to. This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created with the correct gfp flags. I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original patch. Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the problem. -- Eric Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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