From 705e87c0c3c38424f7f30556c85bc20e808d2f59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:16:27 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-i386/pgtable.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-i386') 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) -- cgit v1.2.1