x86: Fix improper large page preservation
authormatthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:30:27 +0000 (22:30 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:52:04 +0000 (12:52 +0100)
commit64edc8ed5ffae999d8d413ba006850e9e34166cb
tree8bbb5c5426e536ac199ab1aba37900ed73c4a822
parente53beacd23d9cb47590da6a7a7f6d417b941a994
x86: Fix improper large page preservation

This patch fixes a bug in try_preserve_large_page() which may
result in improper large page preservation and improper
application of page attributes to the memory area outside of the
original change request.

More specifically, the problem manifests itself when set_memory_*()
is called for several pages at the beginning of the large page and
try_preserve_large_page() erroneously concludes that the change can
be applied to whole large page.

The fix consists of 3 parts:

  1. Addition of "required" protection attributes in
     static_protections(), so .data and .bss can be guaranteed to
     stay "RW"

  2. static_protections() is now called for every small
     page within large page to determine compatibility of new
     protection attributes (instead of just small pages within the
     requested range).

  3. Large page can be preserved only if attribute change is
     large-page-aligned and covers whole large page.

 -v1: Try_preserve_large_page() patch for Linux 2.6.34-rc2
 -v2: Replaced pfn check with address check for kernel rw-data

Signed-off-by: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CE2F7F3.8030809@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c