This avoids the below warning
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 30613 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 set_pte_at+0x2a8/0x3a0 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 0 PID: 30613 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.9.0-rc8-syzkaller-00156-gc85fb28b6f99 #0
Call Trace:
[c0000000001cd1f0] panic+0x29c/0x75c kernel/panic.c:231
[c0000000001cce24] __warn+0x104/0x1b8 kernel/panic.c:600
[c000000000d829e4] report_bug+0x1d4/0x380 lib/bug.c:198
[c000000000036800] program_check_exception+0x4e0/0x750 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:1508
[c0000000000098a8] program_check_common_virt+0x308/0x360
--- interrupt: 700 at set_pte_at+0x2a8/0x3a0 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185
LR = set_pte_at+0x2a4/0x3a0 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_present_page mm/memory.c:857 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_present_pte mm/memory.c:899 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_pte_range mm/memory.c:1014 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1092 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_pud_range mm/memory.c:1127 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1150 [inline]
[c0000000005d2a7c] copy_page_range+0x1f6c/0x2cc0 mm/memory.c:1212
[c0000000001c63cc] dup_mmap kernel/fork.c:592 [inline]
[c0000000001c63cc] dup_mm+0x77c/0xab0 kernel/fork.c:1355
[c0000000001c8f70] copy_mm kernel/fork.c:1411 [inline]
[c0000000001c8f70] copy_process+0x1f00/0x2740 kernel/fork.c:2070
[c0000000001c9b54] _do_fork+0xc4/0x10b0 kernel/fork.c:2429
[c0000000001caf54] __do_sys_clone3+0x1d4/0x2b0 kernel/fork.c:27
Architecture like ppc64 expects set_pte_at to be not used for updating a
valid pte. This is further explained in
commit 56eecdb912b5 ("mm: Use ptep/pmdp_set_numa() for updating _PAGE_NUMA bit")
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index fcfc4ca36eba..bfe202ef6244 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ copy_present_page(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
* source pte back to being writable.
*/
if (pte_write(pte))
- set_pte_at(src_mm, addr, src_pte, pte);
+ ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, src_pte, pte, 1);
new_page = *prealloc;
if (!new_page)
--
2.26.2
