From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932964AbcHNSAz (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:00:55 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54978 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932914AbcHNSAw (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:00:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Will Deacon" , "Russell King" , "Steve Capper" , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "Russell King" , "Catalin Marinas" Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 182/305] ARM: 8579/1: mm: Fix definition of pmd_mknotpresent In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 92.40.249.202 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.37-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steve Capper commit 56530f5d2ddc9b9fade7ef8db9cb886e9dc689b5 upstream. 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. [catalin.marinas@arm.com: using L_PMD_SECT_VALID instead of PMD_TYPE_SECT] Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.") Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Will Deacon Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Steve Capper Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Russell King [bwh: Backported to 3.16: also convert from a macro to a function, as done earlier upstream] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h @@ -243,8 +243,11 @@ 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 */ -#define pmd_mknotpresent(pmd) (__pmd(0)) +/* represent a notpresent pmd by faulting entry, this is used by pmdp_invalidate */ +static inline pmd_t pmd_mknotpresent(pmd_t pmd) +{ + return __pmd(pmd_val(pmd) & ~L_PMD_SECT_VALID); +} static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot) {