Re: [v2 PATCH] arm64: mm: make linear mapping permission update more robust for patial range

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 09:35:08AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this problem. It looks like I forgot to use untagged
> address when calculating idx.
> 
> Can you please try the below patch?
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> index 08ac96b9f846..0f6417e3f9f1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int change_memory_common(unsigned long addr, int
> numpages,
>          */
>         if (rodata_full && (pgprot_val(set_mask) == PTE_RDONLY ||
>                             pgprot_val(clear_mask) == PTE_RDONLY)) {
> -               unsigned long idx = (start - (unsigned long)area->addr) >>
> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +               unsigned long idx = (start - (unsigned
> long)kasan_reset_tag(area->addr)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>                 for (; numpages; idx++, numpages--) {
> __change_memory_common((u64)page_address(area->pages[idx]),
>                                                PAGE_SIZE, set_mask,
> clear_mask);

Yes, that appears to resolve the issue for me, thanks for the quick fix!

If a formal tag helps:

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Cheers,
Nathan