[PATCH v2 6/6] mm/mprotect: use huge_ptep_get() for hugetlb
David Hildenbrand (Arm)
david at kernel.org
Thu Jul 2 08:47:21 PDT 2026
On 7/2/26 07:13, Dev Jain wrote:
> prot_none_hugetlb_entry() is the hugetlb callback for the early
> mprotect(PROT_NONE) PFN permission walk on x86.
>
> The callback passes the decoded PFN to pfn_modify_allowed(). For a
> hugetlb callback, the pte pointer refers to a hugetlb entry. On
> architectures where hugetlb entries need huge_ptep_get(), reading that
> entry with ptep_get() can make the permission check use the wrong PFN.
>
> Use huge_ptep_get() before decoding the hugetlb PFN.
>
> Currently there is no path which can trigger a bug: huge_ptep_get() is a
> simple ptep_get() for x86, and the prot_none walk occurs only for x86.
>
> So no need to backport - use the correct helper anyways.
>
> Fixes: 42e4089c7890 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Disallow non privileged high MMIO PROT_NONE mappings")
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
> ---
> mm/mprotect.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
> index 9cbf932b028cf..23779632d18bf 100644
> --- a/mm/mprotect.c
> +++ b/mm/mprotect.c
> @@ -699,14 +699,20 @@ static int prot_none_pte_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
> 0 : -EACCES;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> static int prot_none_hugetlb_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask,
> unsigned long addr, unsigned long next,
> struct mm_walk *walk)
> {
> - return pfn_modify_allowed(pte_pfn(ptep_get(pte)),
> + pte_t entry = huge_ptep_get(walk->mm, addr, pte);
Nit: can be const :)
> +
> + return pfn_modify_allowed(pte_pfn(entry),
> *(pgprot_t *)(walk->private)) ?
> 0 : -EACCES;
Indentation is odd.
Can we just make this readable?
if (pfn_modify_allowed ...)
return 0
return -EACCESS;
--
Cheers,
David
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