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authorSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>2013-04-19 10:49:31 -0400
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-04-25 12:45:52 -0400
commit4339e3f389081ea90e230a785bdbe10eccd02b71 (patch)
treecce5405ebcbdf63dd88da82e94b31afb606293a2 /arch
parentf15a2a12d01573fcf9d2beb657f308845d55fc66 (diff)
arm64: mm: Correct show_pte behaviour
show_pte makes use of the *_none_or_clear_bad style functions. If a pgd, pud or pmd is identified as being bad, it will then be cleared. As show_pte appears to be called from either the user or kernel fault handlers this side effect can lead to unpredictable behaviour; especially as TLB entries are not invalidated. This patch removes the page table sanitisation from show_pte. If a bad pgd, pud or pmd is encountered it is left unmodified. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/fault.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index afadae6682ed..52638171d6fd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ void show_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
57 pmd_t *pmd; 57 pmd_t *pmd;
58 pte_t *pte; 58 pte_t *pte;
59 59
60 if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd)) 60 if (pgd_none(*pgd) || pgd_bad(*pgd))
61 break; 61 break;
62 62
63 pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); 63 pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
64 if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud)) 64 if (pud_none(*pud) || pud_bad(*pud))
65 break; 65 break;
66 66
67 pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); 67 pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
68 printk(", *pmd=%016llx", pmd_val(*pmd)); 68 printk(", *pmd=%016llx", pmd_val(*pmd));
69 if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) 69 if (pmd_none(*pmd) || pmd_bad(*pmd))
70 break; 70 break;
71 71
72 pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); 72 pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);