Re: [PATCH v2 12/32] mm/vmalloc: vmalloc_to_page() use pte_offset_kernel()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 12:35:47 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 09:13:18AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2023, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 09:34:42PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > > I suppose I should ask you to try reverting this 0d1c81edc61e alone
> > > from 6.5-rc1: the consistency of your bisection implies that it will
> > > "fix" the issues, and it is a commit which we could drop. It makes
> > > me a little nervous, applying userspace-pagetable validation to kernel
> > > pagetables, so I don't want to drop it; and it would really be cargo-
> > > culting to drop it without understanding. But we could drop it.

> > I did look at that, it doesn't revert cleanly by itself. ...

> Right, that ptep_get() wrapper on the next line came in on top.
> The patch to revert just 0d1c81edc61e is this:

Thanks, tried that and it's still exploding in a similar way (though
this time inside a regulator call from the pinctrl code which was
happening in other cases).

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