[PATCH 4.4 039/146] ARM: 8579/1: mm: Fix definition of pmd_mknotpresent

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-07-25T21:01:38Z

From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>

commit 56530f5d2ddc9b9fade7ef8db9cb886e9dc689b5 upstream.

Currently pmd_mknotpresent will use a zero entry to respresent an
invalidated pmd.

Unfortunately this definition clashes with pmd_none, thus it is
possible for a race condition to occur if zap_pmd_range sees pmd_none
whilst __split_huge_pmd_locked is running too with pmdp_invalidate
just called.

This patch fixes the race condition by modifying pmd_mknotpresent to
create non-zero faulting entries (as is done in other architectures),
removing the ambiguity with pmd_none.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: using L_PMD_SECT_VALID instead of PMD_TYPE_SECT]

Fixes: 8d9625070073 ("ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.")
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -258,10 +258,10 @@ PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkyoung, |= PMD_SECT_AF);
#define pfn_pmd(pfn,prot) (__pmd(((phys_addr_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot)))
#define mk_pmd(page,prot) pfn_pmd(page_to_pfn(page),prot)

-/* represent a notpresent pmd by zero, this is used by pmdp_invalidate */
+/* represent a notpresent pmd by faulting entry, this is used by pmdp_invalidate */
static inline pmd_t pmd_mknotpresent(pmd_t pmd)
{
- return __pmd(0);
+ return __pmd(pmd_val(pmd) & ~L_PMD_SECT_VALID);
}

static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot)