It is bad practice to directly set pte entries within a pte table. Instead all modifications must go through arch-provided helpers such as set_pte_at() to give the arch code visibility and allow it to validate (and potentially modify) the operation. Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 9683573f1225..d8d2fe797c55 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2899,10 +2899,13 @@ struct vmap_pfn_data { static int vmap_pfn_apply(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *private) { struct vmap_pfn_data *data = private; + pte_t ptent; if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pfn_valid(data->pfns[data->idx]))) return -EINVAL; - *pte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(data->pfns[data->idx++], data->prot)); + + ptent = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(data->pfns[data->idx++], data->prot)); + set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, ptent); return 0; } -- 2.25.1