It also does need this patch:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/954043#954043
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1
commit a6b79bb88e6682d2739aa5b4db7184038bbb32ce
Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Jul 30 22:20:18 2008 +0000
Fix off-by-one error in iov_iter_advance()
commit 94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c upstream
The iov_iter_advance() function would look at the iov->iov_len entry
even though it might have iterated over the whole array, and iov was
pointing past the end. This would cause DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to trigger a
kernel page fault if the allocation was at the end of a page, and the
next page was unallocated.
The quick fix is to just change the order of the tests: check that there
is any iovec data left before we check the iov entry itself.
Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding this case, and testing the fix.
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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kernel crash in iov_iter_advance (caused by nfs-kernel-server)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231746
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