The current pmd_huge() and pud_huge() functions simply check if the table
bit is not set and reports the entries as huge in that case. This is
counter-intuitive as a clear pmd/pud cannot also be a huge pmd/pud, and
it is inconsistent with at least arm and x86.
To prevent others from making the same mistake as me in looking at code
that calls these functions and to fix an issue with KVM on arm64 that
causes memory corruption due to incorrect page reference counting
resulting from this mistake, let's change the behavior.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 2de9d2e..0eeb4f09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ int huge_pmd_unshare(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long *addr, pte_t *ptep)
int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd)
{
- return !(pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TABLE_BIT);
+ return pmd_val(pmd) && !(pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TABLE_BIT);
}
int pud_huge(pud_t pud)
{
#ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
- return !(pud_val(pud) & PUD_TABLE_BIT);
+ return pud_val(pud) && !(pud_val(pud) & PUD_TABLE_BIT);
#else
return 0;
#endif
--
2.1.2.330.g565301e.dirty
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