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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a790ef4be74e..3222193c46c6 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6939,9 +6939,21 @@ unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end, int poison, char *s)
start = (void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)start);
end = (void *)((unsigned long)end & PAGE_MASK);
for (pos = start; pos < end; pos += PAGE_SIZE, pages++) {
+ struct page *page = virt_to_page(pos);
+ void *direct_map_addr;
+
+ /*
+ * 'direct_map_addr' might be different from 'pos'
+ * because some architectures' virt_to_page()
+ * work with aliases. Getting the direct map
+ * address ensures that we get a _writeable_
+ * alias for the memset().
+ */
+ direct_map_addr = page_address(page);
if ((unsigned int)poison <= 0xFF)
- memset(pos, poison, PAGE_SIZE);
- free_reserved_page(virt_to_page(pos));
+ memset(direct_map_addr, poison, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ free_reserved_page(page);
}
if (pages && s)