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fbmem: VM_IO set, but not propagated 

When we setup up the VMA flags for the mmap flag and we end up using the
fallback mmap functionality we set the vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO.  However we
neglect to propagate the flag to the vma->vm_page_prot.

This bug was found when Linux kernel was running under Xen.  In that
scenario, any page that has VM_IO flag to it, means that it MUST be a
MMIO/VRAM backend memory , _not_ System RAM.  That is what the fbmem.c
does: sets VM_IO, ioremaps the region - everything is peachy.

Well, not exactly.  The vm_page_prot does not get the relevant PTE flags
set (_PAGE_IOMAP) which under Xen is a death-kneel to pages that are
referencing real physical devices but don't have that flag set.

This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Tested-by: Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Daniel De Graaf 2010-08-10 18:02:45 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent daf695fca8
commit c07fbfd17e
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drivers/video/fbmem.c
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@ -1362,6 +1362,7 @@ fb_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
vma->vm_pgoff = off >> PAGE_SHIFT;
/* This is an IO map - tell maydump to skip this VMA */
vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_RESERVED;
vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
fb_pgprotect(file, vma, off);
if (io_remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, off >> PAGE_SHIFT,
vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, vma->vm_page_prot))