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[108/155] mm/sparsemem: get address to page struct instead of address to pfn

Message ID 20200402040924.8ku8o5ahW%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [001/155] tools/accounting/getdelays.c: fix netlink attribute length | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton April 2, 2020, 4:09 a.m. UTC
From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: mm/sparsemem: get address to page struct instead of address to pfn

memmap should be the address to page struct instead of address to pfn.

As mentioned by David, if system memory and devmem sit within a section,
the mismatch address would lead kdump to dump unexpected memory.

Since sub-section only works for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, pfn_to_page() is valid
to get the page struct address at this point.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200210005048.10437-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 mm/sparse.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparsemem-get-address-to-page-struct-instead-of-address-to-pfn
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@  int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid
 
 	/* Align memmap to section boundary in the subsection case */
 	if (section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr) != start_pfn)
-		memmap = pfn_to_kaddr(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr));
+		memmap = pfn_to_page(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr));
 	sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, ms->usage, 0);
 
 	return 0;