Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 05/16] arm64/mm: Define dummy pud_user_exec() when using 2-level page-table

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jan 16 2023 - 13:39:18 EST


On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 4e4ff23a35ee3a145fbc8378ecfeaab2d235cddd ]
>
> With only two levels of page-table, the generic 'pud_*' macros are
> implemented using dummy operations in pgtable-nopmd.h. Since commit
> 730a11f982e6 ("arm64/mm: add pud_user_exec() check in
> pud_user_accessible_page()"), pud_user_accessible_page() unconditionally
> calls pud_user_exec(), which is an arm64-specific helper and therefore
> isn't defined by pgtable-nopmd.h. This results in a build failure for
> configurations with only two levels of page table:
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function 'pud_user_accessible_page':
> >> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:870:51: error: implicit declaration of function 'pud_user_exec'; did you mean 'pmd_user_exec'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 870 | return pud_leaf(pud) && (pud_user(pud) || pud_user_exec(pud));
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | pmd_user_exec
>
> Fix the problem by defining pud_user_exec() as pud_user() in this case.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202301080515.z6zEksU4-lkp@xxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think this patch should be backported to 5.4. It is a fix for a
commit that went in shortly before this one (730a11f982e6). The latter
commit does have a Fixes tag but I guess Will thought it's not worth a
cc stable (and it's up to 5.19 anyway).

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Catalin