From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
kernel-team@lge.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] zram: do not use copy_page with non-page alinged address
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:41:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170414054105.GC462@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492042622-12074-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
Hello,
On (04/13/17 09:17), Minchan Kim wrote:
> The copy_page is optimized memcpy for page-alinged address.
> If it is used with non-page aligned address, it can corrupt memory which
> means system corruption. With zram, it can happen with
>
> 1. 64K architecture
> 2. partial IO
> 3. slub debug
>
> Partial IO need to allocate a page and zram allocates it via kmalloc.
> With slub debug, kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) doesn't return page-size aligned
> address. And finally, copy_page(mem, cmem) corrupts memory.
which would be the case for many other copy_page() calls in the kernel.
right? if so - should the fix be in copy_page() then?
-ss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-14 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-13 0:17 [PATCH 1/3] zram: fix operator precedence to get offset Minchan Kim
2017-04-13 0:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] zram: do not use copy_page with non-page alinged address Minchan Kim
2017-04-14 5:41 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2017-04-14 15:40 ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-17 1:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-13 0:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] zsmalloc: expand class bit Minchan Kim
2017-04-14 5:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] zram: fix operator precedence to get offset Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-14 15:33 ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-17 1:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-17 1:54 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-17 2:14 ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-17 10:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-17 10:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-17 23:53 ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-18 1:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-04-18 2:47 ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-17 1:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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