Re: Lockless/Get_User_Pages_Fast causes Xorg 1.4.99.* to lock

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> I think we need a similar fix for s390 too. If so, then it really should
> get into 2.6.26, but this late in the release, I hope an s390 maintainer
> might be able to test and verify the fix?

Wow, yes, I hadn't realized s390 is ahead of the game there: glad you're
back to spot that.  But yes, we'd prefer maintainer to confirm and push.


[PATCH]] s390: protect _PAGE_SPECIAL bit against mprotect

Stop mprotect's pte_modify from wiping out the s390 pte_special bit, which
caused oops thereafter when vm_normal_page thought X's abnormal was normal.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
---
Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-s390/pgtable.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-s390/pgtable.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-s390/pgtable.h
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ extern char empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE];
 #define _PAGE_SPECIAL	0x004		/* SW associated with special page */
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
 
+/* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */
+#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK	(PAGE_MASK | _PAGE_SPECIAL)
+
 /* Six different types of pages. */
 #define _PAGE_TYPE_EMPTY	0x400
 #define _PAGE_TYPE_NONE		0x401
@@ -681,7 +684,7 @@ static inline void pte_clear(struct mm_s
  */
 static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
-	pte_val(pte) &= PAGE_MASK;
+	pte_val(pte) &= _PAGE_CHG_MASK;
 	pte_val(pte) |= pgprot_val(newprot);
 	return pte;
 }