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Subject[PATCH] arch/tile: fix double-free bug in homecache_free_pages()
When freeing the page with this API, the page was "put" twice.
This was only discovered bringing up an MPT fusion controller, which
actually used the API; it hadn't been invoked previously, so the bug
had gone unnoticed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
---
arch/tile/mm/homecache.c | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c b/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
index cbe6f4f..1cc6ae4 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/homecache.c
@@ -449,9 +449,12 @@ void homecache_free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
VM_BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid((void *)addr));
page = virt_to_page((void *)addr);
if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
- int pages = (1 << order);
homecache_change_page_home(page, order, initial_page_home());
- while (pages--)
- __free_page(page++);
+ if (order == 0) {
+ free_hot_cold_page(page, 0);
+ } else {
+ init_page_count(page);
+ __free_pages(page, order);
+ }
}
}
--
1.6.5.2


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