Re: [PATCH v2] arm: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page notwrite

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 13:02:00 EST


On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Po-Yu Chuang wrote:

> From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the page to cmpxchg is user mode read only (not write),
> we should simulate a data abort first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v2:
> remove !pte_young() check
>
> arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> index 446aee9..eac7c05 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
> if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
> goto bad_access;
> pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> - if (!pte_present(*pte) || !pte_dirty(*pte)) {
> + if (!pte_present(*pte) || !pte_write(*pte) || !pte_dirty(*pte)) {
> pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> goto bad_access;
> }
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
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