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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2022-11-18 18:16:16 +0300
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2022-12-15 21:37:28 +0300
commit3e844d842d49cdbe61a4b338bdd512654179488a (patch)
treefea8b53ff4d583986b98be3bbf60f1ee65cee0b7 /arch/x86/mm
parent1cfaac2400c73378e78182a706be0f3ac8b93cd7 (diff)
downloadlinux-3e844d842d49cdbe61a4b338bdd512654179488a.tar.xz
x86/mm: Ensure forced page table splitting
There are a few kernel users like kfence that require 4k pages to work correctly and do not support large mappings. They use set_memory_4k() to break down those large mappings. That, in turn relies on cpa_data->force_split option to indicate to set_memory code that it should split page tables regardless of whether the need to be. But, a recent change added an optimization which would return early if a set_memory request came in that did not change permissions. It did not consult ->force_split and would mistakenly optimize away the splitting that set_memory_4k() needs. This broke kfence. Skip the same-permission optimization when ->force_split is set. Fixes: 127960a05548 ("x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYuFxZTxkeS35VTZMXwQvohu73W3xbZ5NtjebsVvH6hCuA@mail.gmail.com/
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 220361ceb997..0db69514fe29 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -1727,7 +1727,8 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int primary)
/*
* No changes, easy!
*/
- if (!(pgprot_val(cpa->mask_set) | pgprot_val(cpa->mask_clr)))
+ if (!(pgprot_val(cpa->mask_set) | pgprot_val(cpa->mask_clr)) &&
+ !cpa->force_split)
return ret;
while (rempages) {