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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64/mm: fix virtual address boundary check
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:01:48AM +0800, miles.chen@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
>
> The MODULES_VADDR is not the lowest possible
> kernel virtual address. TASK_SIZE_64 may be larger than
> MODULES_VADDR, FIXADDR_TOP, and PCI_IO_START.
>
> Fix this by comparing TASK_SIZE_64 (highest user virtual address)
> with VA_START (lowest kernel virtual address).
>
> #define VA_BITS (CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS)
> #define VA_START (UL(0xffffffffffffffff) << VA_BITS)
> #define PAGE_OFFSET (UL(0xffffffffffffffff) << (VA_BITS - 1))
> #define MODULES_END (PAGE_OFFSET)
> #define MODULES_VADDR (MODULES_END - SZ_64M)
> #define PCI_IO_END (MODULES_VADDR - SZ_2M)
> #define PCI_IO_START (PCI_IO_END - PCI_IO_SIZE)
> #define FIXADDR_TOP (PCI_IO_START - SZ_2M)
> #define TASK_SIZE_64 (UL(1) << VA_BITS)

We should remove these checks altogether. There is a huge gap between
the user and kernel addresses that they would never overlap (we don't
have enough levels of page tables to cover 64-bit VA space).

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Catalin

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