linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.5 132/238] arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT

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Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:35:09 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...ium.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.5 132/238] arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission

4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

commit fdc69e7df3cb24f18a93192641786e5b7ecd1dfe upstream.

The set_pte_at() function must update the hardware PTE_RDONLY bit
depending on the state of the PTE_WRITE and PTE_DIRTY bits of the given
entry value. However, it currently only performs this for pte_valid()
entries, ignoring PTE_PROT_NONE. The side-effect is that PROT_NONE
mappings would not have the PTE_RDONLY bit set. Without
CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM, this is not an issue since such PROT_NONE pages
are not accessible anyway.

With commit 2f4b829c625e ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of
the access and dirty pte bits"), the ptep_set_wrprotect() function was
re-written to cope with automatic hardware updates of the dirty state.
As an optimisation, only PTE_RDONLY is checked to assess the "dirty"
status. Since set_pte_at() does not set this bit for PROT_NONE mappings,
such pages may be considered "dirty" as a result of
ptep_set_wrprotect().

This patch updates the pte_valid() check to pte_present() in
set_pte_at(). It also adds PTE_PROT_NONE to the swap entry bits comment.

Fixes: 2f4b829c625e ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of the access and dirty pte bits")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...ium.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ extern void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t p
 static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 			      pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 {
-	if (pte_valid(pte)) {
+	if (pte_present(pte)) {
 		if (pte_sw_dirty(pte) && pte_write(pte))
 			pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;
 		else
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ extern pgd_t idmap_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD];
  *	bits 0-1:	present (must be zero)
  *	bits 2-7:	swap type
  *	bits 8-57:	swap offset
+ *	bit  58:	PTE_PROT_NONE (must be zero)
  */
 #define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT	2
 #define __SWP_TYPE_BITS		6