We have to do down_write on the mm semaphore to set a bitfield in the mm context. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: a4499382 ("KVM: s390: Add huge page enablement control") --- arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h | 8 +++++++- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h index f31a15044c24..a8418e1379eb 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ typedef struct { unsigned long asce; unsigned long asce_limit; unsigned long vdso_base; - /* The mmu context allocates 4K page tables. */ + /* + * The following bitfields need a down_write on the mm + * semaphore when they are written to. As they are only + * written once, they can be read without a lock. + * + * The mmu context allocates 4K page tables. + */ unsigned int alloc_pgste:1; /* The mmu context uses extended page tables. */ unsigned int has_pgste:1; diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c index 8c039e12cb24..ac5da6b0b862 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c @@ -695,7 +695,9 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_enable_cap *cap) r = -EINVAL; else { r = 0; + down_write(&kvm->mm->mmap_sem); kvm->mm->context.allow_gmap_hpage_1m = 1; + up_write(&kvm->mm->mmap_sem); /* * We might have to create fake 4k page * tables. To avoid that the hardware works on -- 2.14.3