From: Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>,
Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: ptdump: Make note_page_flush() range aware
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:54:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260724185431.2990395-2-weilin.chang@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260724185431.2990395-1-weilin.chang@arm.com>
note_page_flush() calls note_page() with addr == 0 and level == -1 to
dump the last row of a ptdump. addr == 0 (1 << 64 wrapped around)
renders a huge region with enormous size for address spaces with
IA bits < 64. For example the stage-2 page tables and the EFI runtime
page table.
More importantly, the last region of the address space and everything
after the address space up to 1 << 64 are merged into one row of
output. If the last region within the address space is valid, it will
appear to remain valid up to 1 << 64 with the same attributes.
Currently only the EFI runtime ptdump is affected by this, but KVM will
soon fix its stage-2 ptdump by using note_page_flush(). Here is an
example of an EFI runtime ptdump (last row):
0x0000008000000000-0x0000000000000000 17179868672G PGD
With this patch:
0x0000008000000000-0x0001000000000000 261632G PGD
To fix this, use ptdump_state.range[] to figure out where the address
space ends, and call note_page() with that.
Fixes: 9d80448ac92b ("efi/arm64: Add debugfs node to dump UEFI runtime page tables")
Signed-off-by: Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
index 1c20144700d7..5b34060ceb96 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
@@ -278,9 +278,24 @@ void note_page_pgd(struct ptdump_state *pt_st, unsigned long addr, pgd_t pgd)
void note_page_flush(struct ptdump_state *pt_st)
{
+ const struct ptdump_range *range = pt_st->range;
+ unsigned long end = 0;
pte_t pte_zero = {0};
- note_page(pt_st, 0, -1, pte_val(pte_zero));
+ while (range->start != range->end) {
+ end = range->end;
+ range++;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Address spaces that end at 1 << 64 have range->end == ULONG_MAX,
+ * but note_page() expects the exclusive end. In this case adjust end
+ * to the wraparound value 0.
+ */
+ if (end == ULONG_MAX)
+ end = 0;
+
+ note_page(pt_st, end, -1, pte_val(pte_zero));
}
static void arm64_ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-24 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-24 18:54 [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64: ptdump flush fixes Wei-Lin Chang
2026-07-24 18:54 ` Wei-Lin Chang [this message]
2026-07-24 18:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: ptdump: Flush the last region Wei-Lin Chang
2026-07-25 17:16 ` Dev Jain
2026-07-25 17:28 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-07-26 8:11 ` Dev Jain
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