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+From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+Subject: MIPS: fix cache flushing for highmem pages
+
+Most cache flush ops were no-op for highmem pages. This led to nasty
+segfaults and (in the case of page_address(page) == NULL) kernel
+crashes.
+
+Fix this by always flushing highmem pages using kmap/kunmap_atomic
+around the actual cache flush. This might be a bit inefficient, but at
+least it's stable.
+
+Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+---
+
+--- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
++++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
+@@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ void __flush_anon_page(struct page *page
+ {
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) page_address(page);
+
++ if (PageHighMem(page)) {
++ addr = (unsigned long)kmap_atomic(page);
++ flush_data_cache_page(addr);
++ __kunmap_atomic((void *)addr);
++ return;
++ }
++
+ if (pages_do_alias(addr, vmaddr)) {
+ if (page_mapcount(page) && !Page_dcache_dirty(page)) {
+ void *kaddr;