[PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: Fix definition of pmd_mknotpresent

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue May 31 09:37:40 PDT 2016


From: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>

Currently pmd_mknotpresent will use a zero entry to respresent an
invalidated pmd.

Unfortunately this definition clashes with pmd_none, thus it is
possible for a race condition to occur if zap_pmd_range sees pmd_none
whilst __split_huge_pmd_locked is running too with pmdp_invalidate
just called.

This patch fixes the race condition by modifying pmd_mknotpresent to
create non-zero faulting entries (as is done in other architectures),
removing the ambiguity with pmd_none.

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>
[catalin.marinas at arm.com: using L_PMD_SECT_VALID instead of PMD_TYPE_SECT]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index 4dce1580bc15..2a029bceaf2f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -250,10 +250,10 @@ PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkyoung,   |= PMD_SECT_AF);
 #define pfn_pmd(pfn,prot)	(__pmd(((phys_addr_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot)))
 #define mk_pmd(page,prot)	pfn_pmd(page_to_pfn(page),prot)
 
-/* represent a notpresent pmd by zero, this is used by pmdp_invalidate */
+/* represent a notpresent pmd by faulting entry, this is used by pmdp_invalidate */
 static inline pmd_t pmd_mknotpresent(pmd_t pmd)
 {
-	return __pmd(0);
+	return __pmd(pmd_val(pmd) & ~L_PMD_SECT_VALID);
 }
 
 static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot)



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