From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: constify the pte_offset_map_ro_nolock() return value
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 17:44:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803164400.531199-7-pfalcato@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803164400.531199-1-pfalcato@suse.de>
Constify the pte_t * retval from pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(), for which it is
already pledged that accesses must be read-only. With it, convert the three
treewide users to use const pte_t *.
khugepaged passes the result right down to fault code (do_swap_page()). This
leads to a complicated set of conditions that, in order to be correct, must
not install anything into *vmf->pte. This is not trivial to work around in
fault code, and as such just trivially cast to non-const pte_t* in the
meantime.
The other users are far more trivial and the conversion is equally
trivially simple.
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +-
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
mm/pgtable-generic.c | 4 ++--
6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index a9be337be3e4..e29db41b6043 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ void assert_pte_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
p4d_t *p4d;
pud_t *pud;
pmd_t *pmd;
- pte_t *pte;
+ const pte_t *pte;
spinlock_t *ptl;
if (mm == &init_mm)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 7fabe6c66b4b..acf5a5e31d34 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3885,8 +3885,8 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_offset_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
pte_t *pte_offset_map_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp);
-pte_t *pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
- unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp);
+const pte_t *pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
+ unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp);
pte_t *pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdvalp,
spinlock_t **ptlp);
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index dc418553e57a..dd51e722c535 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static inline pte_t *__pte_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address)
{
return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);
}
-static inline void pte_unmap(pte_t *pte)
+static inline void pte_unmap(const pte_t *pte)
{
rcu_read_unlock();
}
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 6afec636881f..af5d3fcd1b05 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3490,7 +3490,7 @@ static vm_fault_t filemap_fault_recheck_pte_none(struct vm_fault *vmf)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
vm_fault_t ret = 0;
- pte_t *ptep;
+ const pte_t *ptep;
/*
* We might have COW'ed a pagecache folio and might now have an mlocked
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b237f6e7662a..09efac93a8c6 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static enum scan_result __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
* Here the ptl is only used to check pte_same() in
* do_swap_page(), so readonly version is enough.
*/
- pte = pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+ pte = (pte_t *) pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
if (!pte) {
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
result = SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE;
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index b91b1a98029c..2cfc6e608ef4 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ pte_t *__pte_offset_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdvalp)
return NULL;
}
-pte_t *pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
- unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp)
+const pte_t *pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
+ unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp)
{
pmd_t pmdval;
pte_t *pte;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 16:43 [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: add basic PTE const type-safety Pedro Falcato
2026-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] mm/arm64: constify pte_get*() and contpte get logic Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 10:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 12:31 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 12:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] parisc: Drop own implementations for ptep_get() and ptep_test_and_clear_young() Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 11:11 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 12:34 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 12:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 13:00 ` Helge Deller
2026-08-04 13:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mm/powerpc/8xx: constify ptep_get() argument Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 11:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 12:38 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 12:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 12:50 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-08-04 12:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 13:08 ` LEROY Christophe
2026-08-04 13:09 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm/s390: " Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 11:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm: constify generic pte_get*() Pedro Falcato
2026-08-04 11:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-05 10:14 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-03 16:44 ` Pedro Falcato [this message]
2026-08-04 11:22 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: constify the pte_offset_map_ro_nolock() return value Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-04 19:22 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-05 5:58 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-08-05 9:54 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-03 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: add basic PTE const type-safety Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-08-04 6:55 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-08-05 10:42 ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-08-05 12:40 ` Pedro Falcato
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