[RFC patch] ioremap: don't set up huge I/O mappings when p4d/pud/pmd is zero

From: Hanjun Guo
Date: Thu Dec 28 2017 - 06:33:59 EST


From: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>

When we using iounmap() to free the 4K mapping, it just clear the PTEs
but leave P4D/PUD/PMD unchanged, also will not free the memory of page
tables.

This will cause issues on ARM64 platform (not sure if other archs have
the same issue) for this case:

1. ioremap a 4K size, valid page table will build,
2. iounmap it, pte0 will set to 0;
3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, pgd/pmd is unchanged,
then set the a new value for pmd;
4. pte0 is leaked;
5. CPU may meet exception because the old pmd is still in TLB,
which will lead to kernel panic.

Fix it by skip setting up the huge I/O mappings when p4d/pud/pmd is
zero.

Reported-by: Lei Li <lious.lilei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xuefeng Wang <wxf.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Not sure if this is the right direction, this patch has a obvious
side effect that a mapped address with 4K will not back to 2M. I may
miss something and just wrong, so this is just a RFC version, comments
are welcomed.

lib/ioremap.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ioremap.c b/lib/ioremap.c
index b808a39..4e6f19a 100644
--- a/lib/ioremap.c
+++ b/lib/ioremap.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static inline int ioremap_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr,
do {
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);

- if (ioremap_pmd_enabled() &&
+ if (ioremap_pmd_enabled() && pmd_none(*pmd) &&
((next - addr) == PMD_SIZE) &&
IS_ALIGNED(phys_addr + addr, PMD_SIZE)) {
if (pmd_set_huge(pmd, phys_addr + addr, prot))
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static inline int ioremap_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr,
do {
next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);

- if (ioremap_pud_enabled() &&
+ if (ioremap_pud_enabled() && pud_none(*pud) &&
((next - addr) == PUD_SIZE) &&
IS_ALIGNED(phys_addr + addr, PUD_SIZE)) {
if (pud_set_huge(pud, phys_addr + addr, prot))
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static inline int ioremap_p4d_range(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr,
do {
next = p4d_addr_end(addr, end);

- if (ioremap_p4d_enabled() &&
+ if (ioremap_p4d_enabled() && p4d_none(*p4d) &&
((next - addr) == P4D_SIZE) &&
IS_ALIGNED(phys_addr + addr, P4D_SIZE)) {
if (p4d_set_huge(p4d, phys_addr + addr, prot))
--
1.7.12.4