This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: mm: Add double logical invert to pte accessors
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-mm-add-double-logical-invert-to-pte-accessors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 84fe6826c28f69d8708bd575faed7f75e6b6f57f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:38:53 +0000
Subject: arm64: mm: Add double logical invert to pte accessors
From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 84fe6826c28f69d8708bd575faed7f75e6b6f57f upstream.
Page table entries on ARM64 are 64 bits, and some pte functions such as
pte_dirty return a bitwise-and of a flag with the pte value. If the
flag to be tested resides in the upper 32 bits of the pte, then we run
into the danger of the result being dropped if downcast.
For example:
gather_stats(page, md, pte_dirty(*pte), 1);
where pte_dirty(*pte) is downcast to an int.
This patch adds a double logical invert to all the pte_ accessors to
ensure predictable downcasting.
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
[steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx: rebased patch to leave pte_write alone to
allow for merge with 3.13 stable]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ extern struct page *empty_zero_page;
/*
* The following only work if pte_present(). Undefined behaviour otherwise.
*/
-#define pte_present(pte) (pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_PROT_NONE))
-#define pte_dirty(pte) (pte_val(pte) & PTE_DIRTY)
-#define pte_young(pte) (pte_val(pte) & PTE_AF)
-#define pte_special(pte) (pte_val(pte) & PTE_SPECIAL)
+#define pte_present(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_PROT_NONE)))
+#define pte_dirty(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_DIRTY))
+#define pte_young(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_AF))
+#define pte_special(pte) (!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_SPECIAL))
#define pte_write(pte) (!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_RDONLY))
#define pte_exec(pte) (!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_UXN))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.13/arm64-mm-add-double-logical-invert-to-pte-accessors.patch
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