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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 04:36:39 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Toshi Kani <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david.vrabel@...rix.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	ying.huang@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, bp@...e.de,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	toshi.kani@....com
Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON() in mmap_mem() on QEMU/i386

Commit-ID:  1886297ce0c8d563a08c8a8c4c0b97743e06cd37
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1886297ce0c8d563a08c8a8c4c0b97743e06cd37
Author:     Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:36:00 -0600
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:35:33 +0200

x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON() in mmap_mem() on QEMU/i386

The following BUG_ON() crash was reported on QEMU/i386:

  kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:79!
  Call Trace:
  phys_mem_access_prot_allowed
  mmap_mem
  ? mmap_region
  mmap_region
  do_mmap
  vm_mmap_pgoff
  SyS_mmap_pgoff
  do_int80_syscall_32
  entry_INT80_32

after commit:

  edfe63ec97ed ("x86/mtrr: Fix Xorg crashes in Qemu sessions")

PAT is now set to disabled state when MTRRs are disabled.
Thus, reactivating the __pa(high_memory) check in
phys_mem_access_prot_allowed().

When CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is set, __pa() calls __phys_addr(),
which in turn calls slow_virt_to_phys() for 'high_memory'.
Because 'high_memory' is set to (the max direct mapped virt
addr + 1), it is not a valid virtual address.  Hence,
slow_virt_to_phys() returns 0 and hit the BUG_ON.  Using
__pa_nodebug() instead of __pa() will fix this BUG_ON.

However, this code block, originally written for Pentiums and
earlier, is no longer adequate since a 32-bit Xen guest has
MTRRs disabled and supports ZONE_HIGHMEM.  In this setup,
this code sets UC attribute for accessing RAM in high memory
range.

Delete this code block as it has been unused for a long time.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460403360-25441-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/1/608
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 19 -------------------
 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index c4c3ddc..fb0604f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -778,25 +778,6 @@ int phys_mem_access_prot_allowed(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
 	if (file->f_flags & O_DSYNC)
 		pcm = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	/*
-	 * On the PPro and successors, the MTRRs are used to set
-	 * memory types for physical addresses outside main memory,
-	 * so blindly setting UC or PWT on those pages is wrong.
-	 * For Pentiums and earlier, the surround logic should disable
-	 * caching for the high addresses through the KEN pin, but
-	 * we maintain the tradition of paranoia in this code.
-	 */
-	if (!pat_enabled() &&
-	    !(boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MTRR) ||
-	      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_K6_MTRR) ||
-	      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CYRIX_ARR) ||
-	      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR)) &&
-	    (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) >= __pa(high_memory)) {
-		pcm = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC;
-	}
-#endif
-
 	*vma_prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(*vma_prot) & ~_PAGE_CACHE_MASK) |
 			     cachemode2protval(pcm));
 	return 1;