sys_mount(), and probably others, calls free_page(0) when
no page was got. free_pages() allows for this explicitly if
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, and _appears_ to allow for it generally
by testing VALID_PAGE() - but that test is inadequate, if
over 1GB of memory then pagenr 0x40000 can be wrongly freed
(in i386 case). Complicate the test, for what? or simply...
--- linux-2.4.1-pre2/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Jan 11 13:44:43 2001
+++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Jan 11 21:41:39 2001
@@ -542,14 +542,8 @@
void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned long order)
{
- struct page *fpage;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
- if (addr == 0) return;
-#endif
- fpage = virt_to_page(addr);
- if (VALID_PAGE(fpage))
- __free_pages(fpage, order);
+ if (addr != 0)
+ __free_pages(virt_to_page(addr), order);
}
/*
-
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