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arm64/mm: Add warning for outside range requests in vmemmap_populate() 

vmemmap_populate() does not validate the requested vmemmap address range to
be inside the platform assigned space i.e [VMEMMAP_START..VMEMMAP_END] for
vmemmap. Instead it would just go ahead and create the mapping which might
then overlap with other sections in the kernel virtual address space.

Just adding an warning here for range overrun which would help detect the
problem earlier on, before a potential struct page corruption. This also
makes vmemmap_populate() symmetrical with vmemmap_free() which already has
a similar warning.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1609845851-25064-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Anshuman Khandual 2021-01-05 16:54:11 +05:30 committed by Will Deacon
parent 7001d4af92
commit edb739eed8
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@ -1094,6 +1094,7 @@ static void free_empty_tables(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
WARN_ON((start < VMEMMAP_START) || (end > VMEMMAP_END));
return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, altmap);
}
#else /* !ARM64_SWAPPER_USES_SECTION_MAPS */
@ -1107,6 +1108,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
pud_t *pudp;
pmd_t *pmdp;
WARN_ON((start < VMEMMAP_START) || (end > VMEMMAP_END));
do {
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);