There are a few kernel users like kfence that require 4k pages to work
correctly and do not support large mappings. They use set_memory_4k()
to break down those large mappings.
That, in turn relies on cpa_data->force_split option to indicate to
set_memory code that it should split page tables regardless of whether
the need to be.
But, a recent change added an optimization which would return early
if a set_memory request came in that did not change permissions. It
did not consult ->force_split and would mistakenly optimize away the
splitting that set_memory_4k() needs. This broke kfence.
Skip the same-permission optimization when ->force_split is set.
Fixes: 127960a05548 ("x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYuFxZTxkeS35VTZMXwQvohu73W3xbZ5NtjebsVvH6hCuA@mail.gmail.com/
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