[PATCH v3 01/15] arm64/mm: Make set_ptes() robust when OAs cross 48-bit boundary

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Mon Jan 29 23:46:35 AEDT 2024


From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>

Since the high bits [51:48] of an OA are not stored contiguously in the
PTE, there is a theoretical bug in set_ptes(), which just adds PAGE_SIZE
to the pte to get the pte with the next pfn. This works until the pfn
crosses the 48-bit boundary, at which point we overflow into the upper
attributes.

Of course one could argue (and Matthew Wilcox has :) that we will never
see a folio cross this boundary because we only allow naturally aligned
power-of-2 allocation, so this would require a half-petabyte folio. So
its only a theoretical bug. But its better that the code is robust
regardless.

I've implemented pte_next_pfn() as part of the fix, which is an opt-in
core-mm interface. So that is now available to the core-mm, which will
be needed shortly to support forthcoming fork()-batching optimizations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125173534.1659317-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Fixes: 4a169d61c2ed ("arm64: implement the new page table range API")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/fdaeb9a5-d890-499a-92c8-d171df43ad01@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index b50270107e2f..9428801c1040 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -341,6 +341,22 @@ static inline void __sync_cache_and_tags(pte_t pte, unsigned int nr_pages)
 		mte_sync_tags(pte, nr_pages);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Select all bits except the pfn
+ */
+static inline pgprot_t pte_pgprot(pte_t pte)
+{
+	unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
+
+	return __pgprot(pte_val(pfn_pte(pfn, __pgprot(0))) ^ pte_val(pte));
+}
+
+#define pte_next_pfn pte_next_pfn
+static inline pte_t pte_next_pfn(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return pfn_pte(pte_pfn(pte) + 1, pte_pgprot(pte));
+}
+
 static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			    unsigned long __always_unused addr,
 			    pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte, unsigned int nr)
@@ -354,7 +370,7 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		if (--nr == 0)
 			break;
 		ptep++;
-		pte_val(pte) += PAGE_SIZE;
+		pte = pte_next_pfn(pte);
 	}
 }
 #define set_ptes set_ptes
@@ -433,16 +449,6 @@ static inline pte_t pte_swp_clear_exclusive(pte_t pte)
 	return clear_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE));
 }
 
-/*
- * Select all bits except the pfn
- */
-static inline pgprot_t pte_pgprot(pte_t pte)
-{
-	unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
-
-	return __pgprot(pte_val(pfn_pte(pfn, __pgprot(0))) ^ pte_val(pte));
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 /*
  * See the comment in include/linux/pgtable.h
-- 
2.43.0



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