From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sh: mm: replace the page size bits in pte_mkhuge()
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:39:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260926183904.76186-2-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260926183904.76186-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
pte_mkhuge() ORs _PAGE_SZHUGE into a PTE that already carries the base
page size from _PAGE_FLAGS_HARD, which every PAGE_* protection
includes. The PTEL size field is an encoding, not a set of flags: on
SH-4 with 4 KiB pages and 64 KiB huge pages, _PAGE_SZ0 | _PAGE_SZ1
selects a 1 MiB page. Every hugetlb mapping is therefore loaded into
the UTLB as a 1 MiB page whose physical base is the huge page's address
rounded down to 1 MiB, so user accesses land in unrelated kernel
memory.
In a QEMU r2d guest, after touching a MAP_HUGETLB mapping at
0x30000000, QEMU's "info tlb" shows
vpn=c0000 ppn=32e00 sz=3 size=1048576
and writing the two huge pages overwrites kernel data, for example
page tables ("bad pgd 5a5a5a5a" on munmap) or a struct file:
Fault in unaligned fixup: 0000 [#1]
PC is at file_tty_write.isra.0+0x24/0x220
R1 : 5a5a5a5a
The SH-X2 extended size field has the same problem: a 4 KiB base page
(ESZ0) combined with 64 KiB huge pages (ESZ2) encodes 256 KiB. Only the
configurations whose huge size encoding happens to contain the base
encoding, such as 1 MiB over 4 KiB on SH-4, have worked.
Clear the size field before setting the huge page size. All hugetlb
PTE constructors, including huge_pte_modify() on mprotect() and the
fork/COW paths, go through arch_make_huge_pte() and so pte_mkhuge().
With this change the same entry is loaded as
vpn=c0000 ppn=32e00 sz=2 size=65536
and the mappings read back correctly after mprotect() and fork()/COW.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
index 5f51af18997b..1e6821a23eac 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_ptea_attributes(unsigned long x)
# elif defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_64MB)
# define _PAGE_SZHUGE (_PAGE_EXT_ESZ2 | _PAGE_EXT_ESZ3)
# endif
+# define _PAGE_SZHUGE_MASK (_PAGE_EXT_ESZ0 | _PAGE_EXT_ESZ1 | \
+ _PAGE_EXT_ESZ2 | _PAGE_EXT_ESZ3)
# define _PAGE_WIRED (_PAGE_EXT(_PAGE_EXT_WIRED))
#else
# if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_64K)
@@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_ptea_attributes(unsigned long x)
# elif defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_1MB)
# define _PAGE_SZHUGE (_PAGE_SZ0 | _PAGE_SZ1)
# endif
+# define _PAGE_SZHUGE_MASK (_PAGE_SZ_MASK)
# define _PAGE_WIRED (0)
#endif
@@ -359,11 +362,11 @@ static inline pte_t pte_##fn(pte_t pte) { pte.pte_##h op; return pte; }
*/
PTE_BIT_FUNC(high, wrprotect, &= ~(_PAGE_EXT_USER_WRITE | _PAGE_EXT_KERN_WRITE));
PTE_BIT_FUNC(high, mkwrite_novma, |= _PAGE_EXT_USER_WRITE | _PAGE_EXT_KERN_WRITE);
-PTE_BIT_FUNC(high, mkhuge, |= _PAGE_SZHUGE);
+PTE_BIT_FUNC(high, mkhuge, = (pte.pte_high & ~_PAGE_SZHUGE_MASK) | _PAGE_SZHUGE);
#else
PTE_BIT_FUNC(low, wrprotect, &= ~_PAGE_RW);
PTE_BIT_FUNC(low, mkwrite_novma, |= _PAGE_RW);
-PTE_BIT_FUNC(low, mkhuge, |= _PAGE_SZHUGE);
+PTE_BIT_FUNC(low, mkhuge, = (pte.pte_low & ~_PAGE_SZHUGE_MASK) | _PAGE_SZHUGE);
#endif
PTE_BIT_FUNC(low, mkclean, &= ~_PAGE_DIRTY);
base-commit: fddfc3ec31799a932bb92f1b8a84cb3d1f963be9
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-26 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-26 18:39 [PATCH 0/2] sh: mm: fix hugetlb on SH-4 Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-26 18:39 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-09-26 18:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] sh: mm: align hugetlb mappings to the huge page size Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-26 18:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] sh: mm: fix hugetlb on SH-4 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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