[PATCH] x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated)

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Jul 22 2008 - 01:49:49 EST


(Jeremy said:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
When I asked:
jsgf: does that include the NX flag?
He responded eloquently:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
yes, it's the official constant of masking flags out of ptes
)

Change a15af1c9ea2750a9ff01e51615c45950bad8221b 'x86/paravirt: add
pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags()
in favor of a generic one.

Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits:
this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing
up host memory.

Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems
safest to always do the filtering.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops pv_mmu_ops = {
#endif /* PAGETABLE_LEVELS >= 3 */

.pte_val = native_pte_val,
- .pte_flags = native_pte_val,
+ .pte_flags = native_pte_flags,
.pgd_val = native_pgd_val,

.make_pte = native_make_pte,
diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 include/asm-x86/page.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/page.h Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/include/asm-x86/page.h Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static inline pteval_t native_pte_val(pt
return pte.pte;
}

+static inline pteval_t native_pte_flags(pte_t pte)
+{
+ return native_pte_val(pte) & ~PTE_MASK;
+}
+
#define pgprot_val(x) ((x).pgprot)
#define __pgprot(x) ((pgprot_t) { (x) } )

@@ -165,7 +170,7 @@ static inline pteval_t native_pte_val(pt
#endif

#define pte_val(x) native_pte_val(x)
-#define pte_flags(x) native_pte_val(x)
+#define pte_flags(x) native_pte_flags(x)
#define __pte(x) native_make_pte(x)

#endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT */
diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -1083,6 +1083,9 @@ static inline pteval_t pte_flags(pte_t p
ret = PVOP_CALL1(pteval_t, pv_mmu_ops.pte_flags,
pte.pte);

+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG
+ BUG_ON(ret & PTE_MASK);
+#endif
return ret;
}

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