Re: [PATCH for 7.4-rc2+ 2/7] riscv: mm: don't let GUP-fast follow invalidated THP PMDs

["Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>]

On Thu Oct 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM EDT, Zi Yan wrote:
> pmdp_invalidate() leaves a PMD whose pmd_present() is still true, so the
> generic pmd_access_permitted() returns true for an invalidated PMD. Then
> GUP-fast can grab a reference on the folio and, as the PMD value doesn't
> change until the caller finishes, the recheck after taking the reference
> passes too.
>
> Code that invalidates a PMD and then decides, from the folio refcount,
> whether it may drop the mapping relies on GUP-fast backing off from an
> invalidated PMD, like it does from a cleared one. x86, arm64 and powerpc
> already reject invalidated PMDs in pmd_access_permitted().
>
> Provide a riscv pmd_access_permitted() that requires _PAGE_PRESENT, so
> invalidated (and PROT_NONE) PMDs are not followed by GUP-fast.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
> To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> To: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index d48f90140841e..66aac56631f0c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -816,6 +816,12 @@ static inline int pmd_write(pmd_t pmd)
>  	return pte_write(pmd_pte(pmd));
>  }
>  
> +#define pmd_access_permitted pmd_access_permitted
> +static inline bool pmd_access_permitted(pmd_t pmd, bool write)
> +{
> +	return (pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT) && (!write || pmd_write(pmd));
> +}
> +

Sashiko asked if this function allows GUP-fast to follow execute-only
pages so that the page can be read.

Answer:

yes, and the new patch is at[1] and fixes both issues.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261015-riscv-gup-read-fix-v1-1-8cf7f2504029@nvidia.com/

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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi