linux/arch/x86
Jan Beulich 405e1133d0 x86/mm: Avoid premature success when changing page attributes
set_memory_nx() (and set_memory_x()) currently differ in behavior from
all other set_memory_*() functions when encountering a virtual address
space hole within the kernel address range: They stop processing at the
hole, but nevertheless report success (making the caller believe the
operation was carried out on the entire range). While observed to be a
problem - triggering the CONFIG_DEBUG_WX warning - only with out of
tree code, I suspect (but didn't check) that on x86-64 the
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC logic in free_init_pages() would, when called
from free_initmem(), have the same effect on the set_memory_nx() called
from mark_rodata_ro().

This unexpected behavior is a result of change_page_attr_set_clr()
special casing changes to only the NX bit, in that it passes "false" as
the "checkalias" argument to __change_page_attr_set_clr(). Since this
flag becomes the "primary" argument of both __change_page_attr() and
__cpa_process_fault(), the latter would so far return success without
adjusting cpa->numpages. Success to the higher level callers, however,
means that whatever cpa->numpages currently holds is the count of
successfully processed pages. The cases when __change_page_attr() calls
__cpa_process_fault(), otoh, don't generally mean the entire range got
processed (as can be seen from one of the two success return paths in
__cpa_process_fault() already adjusting ->numpages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56BB0AD402000078000D05BF@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-02-25 10:41:43 +01:00
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boot UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
configs Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-09-04 15:49:32 -07:00
crypto crypto: chacha20-ssse3 - Align stack pointer to 64 bytes 2016-01-25 21:47:45 +08:00
entry UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
include x86/mm: Fix INVPCID asm constraint 2016-02-14 11:19:06 +01:00
kernel x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID 2016-02-09 13:36:10 +01:00
kvm kvm: rename pfn_t to kvm_pfn_t 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
lguest Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-11 16:26:03 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-11 16:46:20 -08:00
math-emu Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
mm x86/mm: Avoid premature success when changing page attributes 2016-02-25 10:41:43 +01:00
net bpf, x86: detect/optimize loading 0 immediates 2015-12-18 16:04:51 -05:00
oprofile
pci PCI changes for the v4.5 merge window: 2016-01-21 11:52:16 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-31 16:17:19 -08:00
power x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume 2015-11-26 10:04:53 +01:00
purgatory
ras x86/ras/mce_amd_inj: Inject bank 4 errors on the NBC 2015-10-12 16:15:48 +02:00
realmode UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
tools
um virtio: barrier rework+fixes 2016-01-18 16:44:24 -08:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.5-rc0 2016-01-12 13:05:36 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86/asm/entry, x86/vdso: Move the vDSO code to arch/x86/entry/vdso/ 2015-06-03 18:51:37 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-31 16:17:19 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig/cpus: Fix/complete CPU type help texts 2015-10-21 11:12:56 +02:00
Kconfig.debug libnvdimm for 4.5 2016-01-13 19:15:14 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-11-04 09:11:12 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um