[PATCH] ARM: LPAE: don't reject mapping /dev/mem above 4GB

Sergey Dyasly dserrg at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 13:24:35 EDT 2013


With LPAE enabled, physical address space is larger than 4GB. Allow mapping any
part of it via /dev/mem by utilizing the same check as in arm64.

Reported-by: Vassili Karpov <av1474 at comtv.ru>
Tested-by: Vassili Karpov <av1474 at comtv.ru>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg at gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/mmap.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
index 10062ce..8f1bbbc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
@@ -203,6 +203,15 @@ int valid_phys_addr_range(phys_addr_t addr, size_t size)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+/*
+ * Do not allow /dev/mem mappings beyond the supported physical range.
+ */
+int valid_mmap_phys_addr_range(unsigned long pfn, size_t size)
+{
+	return !(((pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + size) & ~PHYS_MASK);
+}
+#else
 /*
  * We don't use supersection mappings for mmap() on /dev/mem, which
  * means that we can't map the memory area above the 4G barrier into
@@ -212,6 +221,7 @@ int valid_mmap_phys_addr_range(unsigned long pfn, size_t size)
 {
 	return !(pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT) > 0x00100000);
 }
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
 
-- 
1.8.1.2




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