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[PATCH] swsusp: prevent possible image corruption on resume
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The function free_pagedir() used by swsusp for freeing its internal data
structures clears the PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags for each page
being freed.

However, during resume PG_nosave_free set means that the page in
question is "unsafe" (ie.  it will be overwritten in the process of
restoring the saved system state from the image), so it should not be
used for the image data.

Therefore free_pagedir() should not clear PG_nosave_free if it's called
during resume (otherwise "unsafe" pages freed by it may be used for
storing the image data and the data may get corrupted later on).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 19, 2006
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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions kernel/power/snapshot.c
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Expand Up @@ -240,14 +240,15 @@ static void copy_data_pages(struct pbe *pblist)
* free_pagedir - free pages allocated with alloc_pagedir()
*/

static void free_pagedir(struct pbe *pblist)
static void free_pagedir(struct pbe *pblist, int clear_nosave_free)
{
struct pbe *pbe;

while (pblist) {
pbe = (pblist + PB_PAGE_SKIP)->next;
ClearPageNosave(virt_to_page(pblist));
ClearPageNosaveFree(virt_to_page(pblist));
if (clear_nosave_free)
ClearPageNosaveFree(virt_to_page(pblist));
free_page((unsigned long)pblist);
pblist = pbe;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -389,7 +390,7 @@ struct pbe *alloc_pagedir(unsigned int nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask, int safe_needed
pbe->next = alloc_image_page(gfp_mask, safe_needed);
}
if (!pbe) { /* get_zeroed_page() failed */
free_pagedir(pblist);
free_pagedir(pblist, 1);
pblist = NULL;
} else
create_pbe_list(pblist, nr_pages);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -736,7 +737,7 @@ static int create_image(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
pblist = alloc_pagedir(nr_copy_pages, GFP_ATOMIC, 1);
if (pblist)
copy_page_backup_list(pblist, p);
free_pagedir(p);
free_pagedir(p, 0);
if (!pblist)
error = -ENOMEM;
}
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