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Commit 7fcba054 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory



With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
when testing eCryptfs.  The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs was
doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that as a nice
page-aligned chunk of memory.  But at least with SLUB debugging on, this
is not always true, and the page we get from virt_to_page does not
necessarily match the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE worth of memory we got from kmalloc.

My simple testcase was 2 loops doing "rm -f fileX; cp /tmp/fileX ." for 2
different multi-megabyte files.  With this change I no longer see the
corruption.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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