[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix oops related to 4xx flush_tlb_page modification
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 9 20:58:49 EST 2007
kmap_atomic calls flush_tlb_page with a NULL VMA and thus we end
up dereferencing a NULL pointer to try and get the context.id.
If the VMA is null use the global pid value of 0.
---
include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h b/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h
index e7b4c0d..5c91081 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
static inline void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long vmaddr)
{
- _tlbie(vmaddr, vma->vm_mm->context.id);
+ _tlbie(vmaddr, vma ? vma->vm_mm->context.id : 0);
}
static inline void flush_tlb_page_nohash(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long vmaddr)
{
- _tlbie(vmaddr, vma->vm_mm->context.id);
+ _tlbie(vmaddr, vma ? vma->vm_mm->context.id : 0);
}
static inline void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
--
1.5.3.3
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