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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/page_table_check: fix accessing unmapped ptep
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 7:33 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> ptep is unmapped too early, so ptep will be accessed while it's unmapped.
> Fix it by deferring pte_unmap() until page table checking is done.

I would re-word this as a cleanup. While pte_unmap() is currently
unused, it is still better to call it after we are done with *ptep in
case of future changes in other architectures.

>
> Fixes: 80110bbfbba6 ("mm/page_table_check: check entries at pmd levels")

This is more a clean-up, there is no existing bug, so no need to
backport to stable. Please remove the above.

> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

With the above changes:
Acked-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>


> ---
> mm/page_table_check.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_table_check.c b/mm/page_table_check.c
> index 3692bea2ea2c..971c3129b0e3 100644
> --- a/mm/page_table_check.c
> +++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
> @@ -234,11 +234,11 @@ void __page_table_check_pte_clear_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
> pte_t *ptep = pte_offset_map(&pmd, addr);
> unsigned long i;
>
> - pte_unmap(ptep);
> for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++) {
> __page_table_check_pte_clear(mm, addr, *ptep);
> addr += PAGE_SIZE;
> ptep++;
> }
> + pte_unmap(ptep);
> }
> }
> --
> 2.23.0
>

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