linux/arch/arm64
Catalin Marinas fdc69e7df3 arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission
The set_pte_at() function must update the hardware PTE_RDONLY bit
depending on the state of the PTE_WRITE and PTE_DIRTY bits of the given
entry value. However, it currently only performs this for pte_valid()
entries, ignoring PTE_PROT_NONE. The side-effect is that PROT_NONE
mappings would not have the PTE_RDONLY bit set. Without
CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM, this is not an issue since such PROT_NONE pages
are not accessible anyway.

With commit 2f4b829c62 ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of
the access and dirty pte bits"), the ptep_set_wrprotect() function was
re-written to cope with automatic hardware updates of the dirty state.
As an optimisation, only PTE_RDONLY is checked to assess the "dirty"
status. Since set_pte_at() does not set this bit for PROT_NONE mappings,
such pages may be considered "dirty" as a result of
ptep_set_wrprotect().

This patch updates the pte_valid() check to pte_present() in
set_pte_at(). It also adds PTE_PROT_NONE to the swap entry bits comment.

Fixes: 2f4b829c62 ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of the access and dirty pte bits")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@cavium.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2016-03-11 11:03:34 +00:00
..
boot arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. 2016-03-04 18:19:17 +00:00
configs arm64: defconfig: updates for 4.5 2016-01-26 11:24:41 +00:00
crypto arm64: crypto: reduce priority of core AES cipher 2015-11-18 12:09:08 +00:00
include arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission 2016-03-11 11:03:34 +00:00
kernel arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. 2016-03-04 18:19:17 +00:00
kvm arm64: Rename cpuid_feature field extract routines 2016-02-25 10:33:08 +00:00
lib arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. 2016-03-04 18:19:17 +00:00
mm arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid 2016-03-04 14:12:46 +00:00
net arm64: bpf: add extra pass to handle faulty codegen 2016-01-17 19:15:26 -05:00
xen xen/arm: introduce HYPERVISOR_platform_op on arm and arm64 2015-12-21 14:40:56 +00:00
Kconfig arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features 2016-02-26 18:12:35 +00:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default 2016-03-03 18:14:17 +00:00
Kconfig.platforms ARM: SoC support for Tegra platforms for v4.5 2016-01-22 17:30:52 -08:00
Makefile arm64: add support for building vmlinux as a relocatable PIE binary 2016-02-24 14:57:27 +00:00