tree 0395c2d245709c0de13917b0a9e404a4b27d2817
parent 731f1872f4e8a0f1eabd49c3548207e79a421202
author Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> 1231870890 -0800
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1232559752 +0100

x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem

Beschorner Daniel reported:
> hwinfo problem since 2.6.28, showing this in the oops:
>	Corrupted page table at address 7fd04de3ec00

Also, PaX Team reported a regression with this commit:

>	commit 9542ada803198e6eba29d3289abb39ea82047b92
>	Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>	Date:   Wed Sep 24 08:53:33 2008 -0700
>
>	    x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct

This commit breaks mapping any RAM page through /dev/mem, as the
reserve_memtype() was not initializing the return attribute type and as such
corrupting the PTE entry that was setup with the return attribute type.

Because of this bug, application mapping this RAM page through /dev/mem
will die with "Corrupted page table at address xxxx" message in the kernel
log and also the kernel identity mapping which maps the underlying RAM
page gets converted to UC.

Fix this by initializing the return attribute type before calling
reserve_ram_pages_type()

Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Reported-and-tested-by: Beschorner Daniel <Daniel.Beschorner@facton.com>
Tested-and-Acked-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>