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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c index cf6240741134..0795c3a36d8f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> @@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ static int change_memory_common(unsigned long addr, int numpages, unsigned long end = start + size; int ret; struct page_change_data data; + struct vm_struct *area; if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr)) { start &= PAGE_MASK; @@ -51,10 +53,23 @@ static int change_memory_common(unsigned long addr, int numpages, WARN_ON_ONCE(1); } - if (start < MODULES_VADDR || start >= MODULES_END) - return -EINVAL; - - if (end < MODULES_VADDR || end >= MODULES_END) + /* + * Kernel VA mappings are always live, and splitting live section + * mappings into page mappings may cause TLB conflicts. This means + * we have to ensure that changing the permission bits of the range + * we are operating on does not result in such splitting. + * + * Let's restrict ourselves to mappings created by vmalloc (or vmap). + * Those are guaranteed to consist entirely of page mappings, and + * splitting is never needed. + * + * So check whether the [addr, addr + size) interval is entirely + * covered by precisely one VM area that has the VM_ALLOC flag set. + */ + area = find_vm_area((void *)addr); + if (!area || + end > (unsigned long)area->addr + area->size || + !(area->flags & VM_ALLOC)) return -EINVAL; if (!numpages) |