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authorJike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>2018-01-08 19:03:41 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-01-08 19:42:13 +0300
commit8d56eff266f3e41a6c39926269c4c3f58f881a8e (patch)
tree22e5e2bfac647c8068632c931fcbe24e189b429b /arch/x86/mm/pti.c
parent262b6b30087246abf09d6275eb0c0dc421bcbe38 (diff)
downloadlinux-8d56eff266f3e41a6c39926269c4c3f58f881a8e.tar.xz
x86/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*()
The following code contains dead logic: 162 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) { 163 unsigned long new_p4d_page = __get_free_page(gfp); 164 if (!new_p4d_page) 165 return NULL; 166 167 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) { 168 set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page))); 169 new_p4d_page = 0; 170 } 171 if (new_p4d_page) 172 free_page(new_p4d_page); 173 } There can't be any difference between two pgd_none(*pgd) at L162 and L167, so it's always false at L171. Dave Hansen explained: Yes, the double-test was part of an optimization where we attempted to avoid using a global spinlock in the fork() path. We would check for unallocated mid-level page tables without the lock. The lock was only taken when we needed to *make* an entry to avoid collisions. Now that it is all single-threaded, there is no chance of a collision, no need for a lock, and no need for the re-check. As all these functions are only called during init, mark them __init as well. Fixes: 03f4424f348e ("x86/mm/pti: Add functions to clone kernel PMDs") Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Koshina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Andi Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108160341.3461-1-albcamus@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pti.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pti.c32
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index 43d4a4a29037..ce38f165489b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ pgd_t __pti_set_user_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd)
*
* Returns a pointer to a P4D on success, or NULL on failure.
*/
-static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
+static __init p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
{
pgd_t *pgd = kernel_to_user_pgdp(pgd_offset_k(address));
gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
@@ -164,12 +164,7 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
if (!new_p4d_page)
return NULL;
- if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
- set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
- new_p4d_page = 0;
- }
- if (new_p4d_page)
- free_page(new_p4d_page);
+ set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
}
BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_large(*pgd) != 0);
@@ -182,7 +177,7 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
*
* Returns a pointer to a PMD on success, or NULL on failure.
*/
-static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
+static __init pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
{
gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
p4d_t *p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(address);
@@ -194,12 +189,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
if (!new_pud_page)
return NULL;
- if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
- set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
- new_pud_page = 0;
- }
- if (new_pud_page)
- free_page(new_pud_page);
+ set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
}
pud = pud_offset(p4d, address);
@@ -213,12 +203,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
if (!new_pmd_page)
return NULL;
- if (pud_none(*pud)) {
- set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
- new_pmd_page = 0;
- }
- if (new_pmd_page)
- free_page(new_pmd_page);
+ set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
}
return pmd_offset(pud, address);
@@ -251,12 +236,7 @@ static __init pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(unsigned long address)
if (!new_pte_page)
return NULL;
- if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
- set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pte_page)));
- new_pte_page = 0;
- }
- if (new_pte_page)
- free_page(new_pte_page);
+ set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pte_page)));
}
pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);