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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2009-09-22 02:01:47 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 16:17:30 +0200
commit945a11136ebdfa7fcce319ee6215958e84cb85f6 (patch)
tree0553ecd55e5805ea147d6a0f6eae0686d5630cf5 /mm
parentvmscan: kill unnecessary prefetch (diff)
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mm: add gfp mask checking for __get_free_pages()
__get_free_pages() with __GFP_HIGHMEM is not safe because the return address cannot represent a highmem page. get_zeroed_page() already has such a debug checking. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c24
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index afda8fd16484..81926c7ef6f0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1922,31 +1922,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask);
*/
unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
- struct page * page;
+ struct page *page;
+
+ /*
+ * __get_free_pages() returns a 32-bit address, which cannot represent
+ * a highmem page
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON((gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGHMEM) != 0);
+
page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
if (!page)
return 0;
return (unsigned long) page_address(page);
}
-
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_free_pages);
unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
- struct page * page;
-
- /*
- * get_zeroed_page() returns a 32-bit address, which cannot represent
- * a highmem page
- */
- VM_BUG_ON((gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGHMEM) != 0);
-
- page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
- if (page)
- return (unsigned long) page_address(page);
- return 0;
+ return __get_free_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
}
-
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_zeroed_page);
void __pagevec_free(struct pagevec *pvec)