Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2019 18:14:00 +0300 | From | "Kirill A. Shutemov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] mm: pagewalk: Take the pagetable lock in walk_pte_range() |
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 11:15:01AM +0200, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote: > From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> > > Without the lock, anybody modifying a pte from within this function might > have it concurrently modified by someone else. > > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> > Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> > Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> > --- > mm/pagewalk.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c > index d48c2a986ea3..83c0b78363b4 100644 > --- a/mm/pagewalk.c > +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c > @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, > pte_t *pte; > int err = 0; > const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops; > + spinlock_t *ptl; > > - pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); > + pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); > for (;;) { > err = ops->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, walk); > if (err) > @@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, > pte++; > } > > - pte_unmap(pte); > + pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
NAK.
If ->pte_entry() fails on the first entry of the page table, pte - 1 will point out side the page table.
And the '- 1' is totally unnecessary as we break the loop before pte++ on the last iteration.
-- Kirill A. Shutemov
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