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free_highpages() iterates over the free memblock regions in high memory, and marks each page as available for the memory management system. Until commitcddb5ddf2b("arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of high memory pages") it rounded beginning of each region upwards and end of each region downwards. However, after that commit free_highmem() rounds the beginning and end of each region downwards, and we may end up freeing a page that is memblock_reserve()d, resulting in memory corruption. Restore the original rounding of the region boundaries to avoid freeing reserved pages. Fixes:cddb5ddf2b("arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of high memory pages") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029110334.4118-1-ardb@kernel.org/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201031094345.6984-1-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
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