linux-kernel - Re: AMD boot woe due to "x86/mm: Cleanup pgprot_4k_2_large() and pgprot_large_2

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:47:51 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: AMD boot woe due to "x86/mm: Cleanup pgprot_4k_2_large() and
 pgprot_large_2_4k()"

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:32:00PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> This fixed the sucker,
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> index edf9cea4871f..c54d1d0a8e3b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int pud_set_huge(pud_t *pud, phys_addr_t addr, pgprot_t prot)
>  
>         set_pte((pte_t *)pud, pfn_pte(
>                 (u64)addr >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> -               __pgprot(protval_4k_2_large(pgprot_val(prot) | _PAGE_PSE))));
> +               __pgprot(protval_4k_2_large(pgprot_val(prot)) | _PAGE_PSE)));
>  

Very good catch - that's one nasty wrongly placed closing bracket!
pmd_set_huge() has it correct.

Mind sending a proper patch?

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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