From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix thinko in non-global page table attribute check
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:51:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180226095154.GA7920@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180223180448.6006-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 06:04:48PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The routine pgattr_change_is_safe() was extended in commit 4e6020565596
> ("arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to Non-Global without BBM")
> to permit changing the nG attribute from not set to set, but did so in a
> way that inadvertently disallows such changes if other permitted attribute
> changes take place at the same time. So update the code to take this into
> account.
>
> Fixes: 4e6020565596 ("arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to ...")
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 451f96f3377c..5bdc2c4db9ad 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
> * The following mapping attributes may be updated in live
> * kernel mappings without the need for break-before-make.
> */
> - static const pteval_t mask = PTE_PXN | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_WRITE;
> + static const pteval_t mask = PTE_PXN | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_WRITE | PTE_NG;
>
> /* creating or taking down mappings is always safe */
> if (old == 0 || new == 0)
> @@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
> if ((old | new) & PTE_CONT)
> return false;
>
> - /* Transitioning from Global to Non-Global is safe */
> - if (((old ^ new) == PTE_NG) && (new & PTE_NG))
> - return true;
> + /* Transitioning from Non-Global to Global is unsafe */
> + if (old & ~new & PTE_NG)
> + return false;
Oops, sorry about this:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-26 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-23 18:04 [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix thinko in non-global page table attribute check Ard Biesheuvel
2018-02-23 18:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-02-23 18:16 ` Mark Rutland
2018-02-23 18:18 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-26 9:51 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-02-26 14:27 ` Catalin Marinas
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