From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
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Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
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Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/mm: map shared vmemmap tail pages as read-only
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:08:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019090830.1917657-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019090830.1917657-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
PowerPC radix uses an architecture-specific vmemmap population path for
shared tail mappings, so it does not inherit the read-only protection added
to the common path.
Protect these mappings as well so illegal writes fault instead of
corrupting metadata shared by multiple tail pages.
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index 44868b62b14e..ebac5f9058f6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,9 @@ static pte_t * __meminit radix__vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long
VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr));
entry = pfn_pte(__pa(p) >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ /* Map the shared tail page as read-only to catch illegal writes. */
+ if (reuse)
+ entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, entry);
asm volatile("ptesync": : :"memory");
}
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 9:08 [PATCH 0/4] mm: Enforce read-only shared vmemmap tail mappings Muchun Song
2026-10-19 9:08 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/sparse-vmemmap: map shared vmemmap tail pages as read-only Muchun Song
2026-10-21 4:57 ` Lance Yang
2026-10-21 5:36 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-19 9:08 ` Muchun Song [this message]
2026-10-21 5:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/mm: " Lance Yang
2026-10-30 0:26 ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-10-19 9:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: remove vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo() Muchun Song
2026-10-21 6:07 ` Lance Yang
2026-10-19 9:08 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: remove hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_bootmem_folios() Muchun Song
2026-10-21 6:18 ` Lance Yang
2026-10-30 10:44 ` [PATCH 0/4] mm: Enforce read-only shared vmemmap tail mappings Pavithra
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