[PATCH] mm: Fix modifying of page protection by insert_pfn()

Jan Kara
2019-03-11T08:45:45Z

Aneesh has reported that PPC triggers the following warning when
excercising DAX code:

[c00000000007610c] set_pte_at+0x3c/0x190
LR [c000000000378628] insert_pfn+0x208/0x280
Call Trace:
[c0000002125df980] [8000000000000104] 0x8000000000000104 (unreliable)
[c0000002125df9c0] [c000000000378488] insert_pfn+0x68/0x280
[c0000002125dfa30] [c0000000004a5494] dax_iomap_pte_fault.isra.7+0x734/0xa40
[c0000002125dfb50] [c000000000627250] __xfs_filemap_fault+0x280/0x2d0
[c0000002125dfbb0] [c000000000373abc] do_wp_page+0x48c/0xa40
[c0000002125dfc00] [c000000000379170] __handle_mm_fault+0x8d0/0x1fd0
[c0000002125dfd00] [c00000000037a9b0] handle_mm_fault+0x140/0x250
[c0000002125dfd40] [c000000000074bb0] __do_page_fault+0x300/0xd60
[c0000002125dfe20] [c00000000000acf4] handle_page_fault+0x18

Now that is WARN_ON in set_pte_at which is

VM_WARN_ON(pte_hw_valid(*ptep) && !pte_protnone(*ptep));

The problem is that on some architectures set_pte_at() cannot cope with
a situation where there is already some (different) valid entry present.

Use ptep_set_access_flags() instead to modify the pfn which is built to
deal with modifying existing PTE.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b2770da64254 "mm: add vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite()"
Reported-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
mm/memory.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 47fe250307c7..ab650c21bccd 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1549,10 +1549,12 @@ static vm_fault_t insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(*pte)));
goto out_unlock;
}
- entry = *pte;
- goto out_mkwrite;
- } else
- goto out_unlock;
+ entry = pte_mkyoung(*pte);
+ entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+ if (ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, pte, entry, 1))
+ update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, pte);
+ }
+ goto out_unlock;
}

/* Ok, finally just insert the thing.. */
@@ -1561,7 +1563,6 @@ static vm_fault_t insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
else
entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_t_pte(pfn, prot));

-out_mkwrite:
if (mkwrite) {
entry = pte_mkyoung(entry);
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
--
2.16.4