* [PATCH V2] powerpc/mm: Invalidate subpage_prot() system call on radix platforms
@ 2017-12-04 5:49 Anshuman Khandual
2018-01-22 3:34 ` [V2] " Michael Ellerman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anshuman Khandual @ 2017-12-04 5:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: mpe, aneesh.kumar
Radix enabled platforms don't support subpage_prot() system calls. But
at present the system call goes through without an error and fails
later on while validating expected subpage accesses. Lets not allow
the system call on powerpc radix platforms to begin with to prevent
this confusion in user space.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changes in V2:
Now it returns -ENOENT error instead as per Michael Ellerman.
arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
index 781532d..f14a07c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ long sys_subpage_prot(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, u32 __user *map)
unsigned long next, limit;
int err;
+ if (radix_enabled())
+ return -ENOENT;
+
/* Check parameters */
if ((addr & ~PAGE_MASK) || (len & ~PAGE_MASK) ||
addr >= mm->task_size || len >= mm->task_size ||
--
1.8.3.1
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