set_memory_nx() (and set_memory_x()) currently differ in behavior from
all other set_memory_*() functions when encountering a virtual address
space hole within the kernel address range: They stop processing at the
hole, but nevertheless report success (making the caller believe the
operation was carried out on the entire range). While observed to be a
problem - triggering the CONFIG_DEBUG_WX warning - only with out of
tree code, I suspect (but didn't check) that on x86-64 the
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC logic in free_init_pages() would, when called
from free_initmem(), have the same effect on the set_memory_nx() called
from mark_rodata_ro().
This unexpected behavior is a result of change_page_attr_set_clr()
special casing changes to only the NX bit, in that it passes "false" as
the "checkalias" argument to __change_page_attr_set_clr(). Since this
flag becomes the "primary" argument of both __change_page_attr() and
__cpa_process_fault(), the latter would so far return success without
adjusting cpa->numpages. Success to the higher level callers, however,
means that whatever cpa->numpages currently holds is the count of
successfully processed pages. The cases when __change_page_attr() calls
__cpa_process_fault(), otoh, don't generally mean the entire range got
processed (as can be seen from one of the two success return paths in
__cpa_process_fault() already adjusting ->numpages).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
---
v3: Mostly re-written description.
v2: Completely re-written description.
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 4.5-rc3/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ 4.5-rc3-x86-cpa-non-primary/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -1122,8 +1122,10 @@ static int __cpa_process_fault(struct cp
/*
* Ignore all non primary paths.
*/
- if (!primary)
+ if (!primary) {
+ cpa->numpages = 1;
return 0;
+ }
/*
* Ignore the NULL PTE for kernel identity mapping, as it is expected
