linux-kernel - [RESEND PATCH v1 1/5] mm: vmalloc must set pte via arch code

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Message-Id: <20230511132113.80196-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 May 2023 14:21:09 +0100
From:   Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, damon@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [RESEND PATCH v1 1/5] mm: vmalloc must set pte via arch code

It is bad practice to directly set pte entries within a pte table.
Instead all modifications must go through arch-provided helpers such as
set_pte_at() to give the arch code visibility and allow it to validate
(and potentially modify) the operation.

Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 9683573f1225..d8d2fe797c55 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2899,10 +2899,13 @@ struct vmap_pfn_data {
 static int vmap_pfn_apply(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *private)
 {
 	struct vmap_pfn_data *data = private;
+	pte_t ptent;

 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pfn_valid(data->pfns[data->idx])))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	*pte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(data->pfns[data->idx++], data->prot));
+
+	ptent = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(data->pfns[data->idx++], data->prot));
+	set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, ptent);
 	return 0;
 }

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2.25.1