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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: vmalloc must set pte via arch code
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> 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 check
> (and potentially modify) the operation.
>
> Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function")
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 9683573f1225..48202ec5f79a 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2899,10 +2899,16 @@ struct vmap_pfn_data {
> static int vmap_pfn_apply(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *private)
> {
> struct vmap_pfn_data *data = private;
> + unsigned long pfn = data->pfns[data->idx];
> + pte_t ptent;
>
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pfn_valid(data->pfns[data->idx])))
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pfn_valid(pfn)))
> return -EINVAL;
> - *pte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(data->pfns[data->idx++], data->prot));
> +
> + ptent = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(pfn, data->prot));
> + set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, ptent);
> +
> + data->idx++;
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>

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Uladzislau Rezki

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