Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix modifying of page protection by insert_pfn()

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On 3/28/19 2:44 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:33:32 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon 11-03-19 10:22:44, Dan Williams wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:45 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Aneesh has reported that PPC triggers the following warning when
excercising DAX code:

[c00000000007610c] set_pte_at+0x3c/0x190
LR [c000000000378628] insert_pfn+0x208/0x280
Call Trace:
[c0000002125df980] [8000000000000104] 0x8000000000000104 (unreliable)
[c0000002125df9c0] [c000000000378488] insert_pfn+0x68/0x280
[c0000002125dfa30] [c0000000004a5494] dax_iomap_pte_fault.isra.7+0x734/0xa40
[c0000002125dfb50] [c000000000627250] __xfs_filemap_fault+0x280/0x2d0
[c0000002125dfbb0] [c000000000373abc] do_wp_page+0x48c/0xa40
[c0000002125dfc00] [c000000000379170] __handle_mm_fault+0x8d0/0x1fd0
[c0000002125dfd00] [c00000000037a9b0] handle_mm_fault+0x140/0x250
[c0000002125dfd40] [c000000000074bb0] __do_page_fault+0x300/0xd60
[c0000002125dfe20] [c00000000000acf4] handle_page_fault+0x18

Now that is WARN_ON in set_pte_at which is

         VM_WARN_ON(pte_hw_valid(*ptep) && !pte_protnone(*ptep));

The problem is that on some architectures set_pte_at() cannot cope with
a situation where there is already some (different) valid entry present.

Use ptep_set_access_flags() instead to modify the pfn which is built to
deal with modifying existing PTE.

CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: b2770da64254 "mm: add vm_insert_mixed_mkwrite()"
Reported-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, can you pick this up?

Andrew, ping?

I merged this a couple of weeks ago and it's in the queue for 5.1.


I noticed that we need similar change for pmd and pud updates. I will send a patch for that.

-aneesh




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