From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D87C433FE for ; Fri, 27 May 2022 01:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231534AbiE0BLB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2022 21:11:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54890 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229462AbiE0BK7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2022 21:10:59 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF990EABBC for ; Thu, 26 May 2022 18:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4L8RXd5NnvzgYQC; Fri, 27 May 2022 09:09:21 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.174.177.76] (10.174.177.76) by canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Fri, 27 May 2022 09:10:54 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_table_check: fix accessing unmapped ptep To: Pasha Tatashin , Andrew Morton , , Matthew Wilcox CC: Matthew Wilcox , David Rientjes , linux-mm , LKML References: <20220526113350.30806-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com> <20220526111546.50102da288cccbe913cadbf4@linux-foundation.org> From: Miaohe Lin Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 09:10:53 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.177.76] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To canpemm500002.china.huawei.com (7.192.104.244) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2022/5/27 2:31, Pasha Tatashin wrote: >>> Miaohe, please store the ptep, or maybe drop this patch entirely. >> >> I think it's best to fix it. I rewrote the changelog as >> >> : ptep is unmapped too early, so ptep could theoretically be accessed while >> : it's unmapped. This might become a problem if/when CONFIG_HIGHPTE becomes >> : available on riscv. >> : >> : Fix it by deferring pte_unmap() until page table checking is done. >> >> I'll retain the Fixes:. This doesn't imply cc:stable in MM, and anyone >> who backports the original patchset will want to know about this fixup. > Makes sense. > > >> And I queued a fixup for the thing Matthew noticed. > Thank you Andrew. > Many thanks for all of your comments, review and fixup! :) > Pasha > . >