[PATCH 04/10] ppc64: Add paranoid warnings for unexpected DSISR_PROTFAULT

Mel Gorman mgorman at suse.de
Mon Jan 5 21:54:05 AEDT 2015


ppc64 should not be depending on DSISR_PROTFAULT and it's unexpected
if they are triggered. This patch adds warnings just in case they
are being accidentally depended upon.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c |  8 ++++++--
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c       | 20 +++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c
index 5a236f0..0450d68 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c
@@ -64,10 +64,14 @@ int copro_handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea,
 		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
 			goto out_unlock;
 	} else {
-		if (dsisr & DSISR_PROTFAULT)
-			goto out_unlock;
 		if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC)))
 			goto out_unlock;
+		/*
+		 * protfault should only happen due to us
+		 * mapping a region readonly temporarily. PROT_NONE
+		 * is also covered by the VMA check above.
+		 */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(dsisr & DSISR_PROTFAULT);
 	}
 
 	ret = 0;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index b434153..1bcd378 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -389,17 +389,6 @@ good_area:
 #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */
 
 	if (is_exec) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
-		/* Protection fault on exec go straight to failure on
-		 * Hash based MMUs as they either don't support per-page
-		 * execute permission, or if they do, it's handled already
-		 * at the hash level. This test would probably have to
-		 * be removed if we change the way this works to make hash
-		 * processors use the same I/D cache coherency mechanism
-		 * as embedded.
-		 */
-#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU */
-
 		/*
 		 * Allow execution from readable areas if the MMU does not
 		 * provide separate controls over reading and executing.
@@ -414,6 +403,14 @@ good_area:
 		    (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE) ||
 		     !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE))))
 			goto bad_area;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
+		/*
+		 * protfault should only happen due to us
+		 * mapping a region readonly temporarily. PROT_NONE
+		 * is also covered by the VMA check above.
+		 */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU */
 	/* a write */
 	} else if (is_write) {
 		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
@@ -423,6 +420,7 @@ good_area:
 	} else {
 		if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)))
 			goto bad_area;
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT);
 	}
 
 	/*
-- 
2.1.2



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