From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
David CARLIER <devnexen@gmail.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 1/5] x86/mm/pat: introcude cpa_lock() and cpa_unlock()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:07:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260728-cpa-fixes-v1-1-2ed2352300b3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260728-cpa-fixes-v1-0-2ed2352300b3@kernel.org>
The splitting and merging of kernel page table mappings between small and
large is protected by cpa_lock.
Commit 5fce67641a3e ("x86/mm/pat: Don't gate cpa_lock on
debug_pagealloc_enabled()") disabled gatig of cpa_lock on
debug_pagealloc_enabled() to simplify the code presuming that skipping
the lock when debug_pagealloc_enabled() was an optimization.
However Lorenzo Stoakes notes that:
__kernel_map_pages() can be called from irq context:
< GFP_ATOMIC context >
kfree() or whatever
-> ...
-> __free_pages_prepare()
-> debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages()
-> __kernel_map_pages()
-> __change_page_attr_set_clr()
-> cpa_lock spins [irqs off]
So you're spin locking in irq context here, which is probably not a
good idea.
It would be possible to unconditionally use spin_lock_irqsave() and
spin_unlock_irqrestore() but that would complicate locking rules even
more.
Restore gating of cpa_lock of debug_pagealloc_enabled(), but instead of
putting the open-coded condition
if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
before every lock and unlock operation, wrap the condition and the
locking operation into cpa_lock() and cpa_unlock() helpers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index b1e780a465b5..4c8922695fd3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -65,8 +65,25 @@ static const int cpa_warn_level = CPA_PROTECT;
* Serialize cpa() using cpa_lock so that we don't allow any other cpu, with
* stale large tlb entries, to change the page attribute in parallel to some
* other cpu splitting a large page entry along with changing the attribute.
+ *
+ * When debug_pagealloc_enabled(), page attributes could be changed in atomic
+ * context that would warrant disabling IRQs. But since debug_pagealloc always
+ * uses 4k pages in the direct map there are no races for splits and collapses
+ * and locking can be just skipped altogether.
*/
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cpa_lock);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(_cpa_lock);
+
+static inline void cpa_lock(void)
+{
+ if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+ spin_lock(&_cpa_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void cpa_unlock(void)
+{
+ if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
+ spin_unlock(&_cpa_lock);
+}
#define CPA_FLUSHTLB 1
#define CPA_ARRAY 2
@@ -417,7 +434,7 @@ static void cpa_collapse_large_pages(struct cpa_data *cpa)
int collapsed = 0;
int i;
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_lock();
if (cpa->flags & (CPA_PAGES_ARRAY | CPA_ARRAY)) {
for (i = 0; i < cpa->numpages; i++)
@@ -433,7 +450,7 @@ static void cpa_collapse_large_pages(struct cpa_data *cpa)
}
if (!collapsed) {
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -444,7 +461,7 @@ static void cpa_collapse_large_pages(struct cpa_data *cpa)
pagetable_free(ptdesc);
}
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_unlock();
}
static void cpa_flush(struct cpa_data *cpa, int cache)
@@ -1239,9 +1256,9 @@ static int split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte,
{
struct ptdesc *ptdesc;
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_unlock();
ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_lock();
if (!ptdesc)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2025,9 +2042,9 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int primary)
if (cpa->flags & (CPA_ARRAY | CPA_PAGES_ARRAY))
cpa->numpages = 1;
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_lock();
ret = __change_page_attr(cpa, primary);
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ cpa_unlock();
if (ret)
goto out;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-28 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-28 13:07 [PATCH 0/5] x86/mm/pat: CPA fixes Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-28 13:07 ` Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-07-28 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/mm/pat: introcude cpa_lock() and cpa_unlock() Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-28 14:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 14:30 ` Dave Hansen
2026-07-28 14:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 14:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 14:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-28 14:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 15:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-28 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 15:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 15:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-28 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 15:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-07-28 16:01 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 13:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/mm/pat: acquire init_mm write lock on collapse to avoid UAF Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 13:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/mm/pat: acquire init_mm read lock on attribute change " Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 13:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-28 13:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/mm/pat: allocate split page tables as kernel page tables Mike Rapoport
2026-07-28 13:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/mm/pat: fix effective RW computation in lookup_address_in_pgd_attr() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-07-28 13:11 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86/mm/pat: CPA fixes Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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