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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:40 -0700
commit705e87c0c3c38424f7f30556c85bc20e808d2f59 (patch)
tree7a237e6266f4801385e1226cc497b47e3a2458bd /include/asm-i386
parent8f4e2101fd7df9031a754eedb82e2060b51f8c45 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/pgtable.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
index d101ac414f0..0e3ec809352 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)