[PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops

Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.

These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them.  But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.

That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about.  It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
index d101ac414f07..0e3ec809352d 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ extern unsigned long pg0[];
 #define pte_present(x)  ((x).pte_low & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE))
 #define pte_clear(mm,addr,xp)   do { set_pte_at(mm, addr, xp, __pte(0)); } while (0)
 
-#define pmd_none(x)     (!pmd_val(x))
+/* To avoid harmful races, pmd_none(x) should check only the lower when PAE */
+#define pmd_none(x)     (!(unsigned long)pmd_val(x))
 #define pmd_present(x)  (pmd_val(x) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
 #define pmd_clear(xp)   do { set_pmd(xp, __pmd(0)); } while (0)
 #define pmd_bad(x)      ((pmd_val(x) & (~PAGE_MASK & ~_PAGE_USER)) != _KERNPG_TABLE)