Make it impossible to create a sw-dirty, hw-clean PTE with pte_modify. Such a PTE should be impossible to create, and there may be places that assume that pte_dirty() implies pte_hw_dirty(). Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h index b19a8aee684c..79ce70fbb751 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -834,6 +834,12 @@ static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot) pte = set_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_DIRTY)); pte_val(pte) = (pte_val(pte) & ~mask) | (pgprot_val(newprot) & mask); + /* + * If we end up clearing hw dirtiness for a sw-dirty PTE, set hardware + * dirtiness again. + */ + if (pte_sw_dirty(pte)) + pte = pte_mkdirty(pte); return pte; } -- 2.43.0.rc2.451.g8631bc7472-goog
