[PATCH] arm64: mm: fix thinko in non-global page table attribute check

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Fri Feb 23 10:04:48 PST 2018


The routine pgattr_change_is_safe() was extended in commit 4e6020565596
("arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to Non-Global without BBM")
to permit changing the nG attribute from not set to set, but did so in a
way that inadvertently disallows such changes if other permitted attribute
changes take place at the same time. So update the code to take this into
account.

Fixes: 4e6020565596 ("arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to ...")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 451f96f3377c..5bdc2c4db9ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
 	 * The following mapping attributes may be updated in live
 	 * kernel mappings without the need for break-before-make.
 	 */
-	static const pteval_t mask = PTE_PXN | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_WRITE;
+	static const pteval_t mask = PTE_PXN | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_WRITE | PTE_NG;
 
 	/* creating or taking down mappings is always safe */
 	if (old == 0 || new == 0)
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
 	if ((old | new) & PTE_CONT)
 		return false;
 
-	/* Transitioning from Global to Non-Global is safe */
-	if (((old ^ new) == PTE_NG) && (new & PTE_NG))
-		return true;
+	/* Transitioning from Non-Global to Global is unsafe */
+	if (old & ~new & PTE_NG)
+		return false;
 
 	return ((old ^ new) & ~mask) == 0;
 }
-- 
2.11.0




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