From 426931e7e5d96664616794c7c36efc748a7497e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Roberts Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:15:43 +0100 Subject: mm: ptdump should use ptep_get_lockless() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Patch series "Encapsulate PTE contents from non-arch code", v3. A series to improve the encapsulation of pte entries by disallowing non-arch code from directly dereferencing pte_t pointers. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. This patch (of 3): The page table dumper uses walk_page_range_novma() to walk the page tables, which does not lock the PTL before calling the pte_entry() callback. Therefore, the page table dumper's callback must use ptep_get_lockless() rather than ptep_get() to ensure that the pte it reads is not torn or otherwise corrupt when racing with writers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alex Williamson Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/ptdump.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/ptdump.c') diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c index 8adab455a68b..03c1bdae4a43 100644 --- a/mm/ptdump.c +++ b/mm/ptdump.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int ptdump_pte_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, unsigned long next, struct mm_walk *walk) { struct ptdump_state *st = walk->private; - pte_t val = ptep_get(pte); + pte_t val = ptep_get_lockless(pte); if (st->effective_prot) st->effective_prot(st, 4, pte_val(val)); -- cgit v1.2.3