Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] mm/migrate.c: fix potential indeterminate pte entry in migrate_vma_insert_page()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Mar 25 2021 - 09:27:36 EST


On 25.03.21 14:15, Miaohe Lin wrote:
If the zone device page does not belong to un-addressable device memory,
the variable entry will be uninitialized and lead to indeterminate pte
entry ultimately. Fix this unexpected case and warn about it.

Fixes: df6ad69838fc ("mm/device-public-memory: device memory cache coherent with CPU")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index dacbdc9710ac..87bbad578127 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -2968,6 +2968,13 @@ static void migrate_vma_insert_page(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
swp_entry = make_device_private_entry(page, vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
entry = swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * For now we only support migrating to un-addressable
+ * device memory.
+ */
+ pr_warn_once("Unsupported ZONE_DEVICE page type.\n");
+ goto abort;
}
} else {
entry = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);


Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb