[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 <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Hugh Dickins
2005-10-29 18:16:27 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8f4e2101fd
commit 705e87c0c3
7 changed files with 30 additions and 47 deletions

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@@ -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)