[PATCH v2] arm64: Restrict pagetable teardown to avoid false warning
Dev Jain
dev.jain at arm.com
Sun May 18 02:54:45 PDT 2025
Commit 9c006972c3fe removes the pxd_present() checks because the caller
checks pxd_present(). But, in case of vmap_try_huge_pud(), the caller only
checks pud_present(); pud_free_pmd_page() recurses on each pmd through
pmd_free_pte_page(), wherein the pmd may be none. Thus it is possible to
hit a warning in the latter, since pmd_none => !pmd_table(). Thus, add
a pmd_present() check in pud_free_pmd_page().
This problem was found by code inspection.
This patch is based on 6.15-rc6.
Fixes: 9c006972c3fe (arm64: mmu: drop pXd_present() checks from pXd_free_pYd_table())
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
---
v1->v2:
- Enforce check in caller
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index ea6695d53fb9..5b1f4cd238ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1286,7 +1286,8 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr)
next = addr;
end = addr + PUD_SIZE;
do {
- pmd_free_pte_page(pmdp, next);
+ if (pmd_present(*pmdp))
+ pmd_free_pte_page(pmdp, next);
} while (pmdp++, next += PMD_SIZE, next != end);
pud_clear(pudp);
--
2.30.2
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