[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix crash in page table dump with huge pages

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 16 20:50:35 AEST 2017


The page table dump code doesn't know about huge pages, so currently
it crashes (or walks random memory, usually leading to a crash), if it
finds a huge page. On Book3S we only see huge pages in the Linux page
tables when we're using the P9 Radix MMU.

Teaching the code to properly handle huge pages is a bit more involved,
so for now just prevent the crash.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
Fixes: 8eb07b187000 ("powerpc/mm: Dump linux pagetables")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/dump_linuxpagetables.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/dump_linuxpagetables.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/dump_linuxpagetables.c
index d659345a98d6..6070d3d60ef1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/dump_linuxpagetables.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/dump_linuxpagetables.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static void walk_pmd(struct pg_state *st, pud_t *pud, unsigned long start)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++, pmd++) {
 		addr = start + i * PMD_SIZE;
-		if (!pmd_none(*pmd))
+		if (!pmd_none(*pmd) && !pmd_huge(*pmd))
 			/* pmd exists */
 			walk_pte(st, pmd, addr);
 		else
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static void walk_pud(struct pg_state *st, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long start)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++, pud++) {
 		addr = start + i * PUD_SIZE;
-		if (!pud_none(*pud))
+		if (!pud_none(*pud) && !pud_huge(*pud))
 			/* pud exists */
 			walk_pmd(st, pud, addr);
 		else
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static void walk_pagetables(struct pg_state *st)
 	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PGD; i++, pgd++) {
 		addr = KERN_VIRT_START + i * PGDIR_SIZE;
-		if (!pgd_none(*pgd))
+		if (!pgd_none(*pgd) && !pgd_huge(*pgd))
 			/* pgd exists */
 			walk_pud(st, pgd, addr);
 		else
-- 
2.7.4



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