From: Steve Capper <[email protected]>

commit dde1b65110353517816bcbc58539463396202244 upstream.

For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user
address ptes that are written to a page table but not for ptes
created with mk_pte.

This can cause some comparison tests made by pte_same to fail
spuriously and lead to other problems.

To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that
is present before running the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h 
b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index 86b8fe3..70f041c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -166,6 +166,23 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long 
addr)
                clean_pmd_entry(pmdp);  \
        } while (0)
 
+/*
+ * For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user address ptes
+ * that are written to a page table but not for ptes created with mk_pte.
+ *
+ * In hugetlb_no_page, a new huge pte (new_pte) is generated and passed to
+ * hugetlb_cow, where it is compared with an entry in a page table.
+ * This comparison test fails erroneously leading ultimately to a memory leak.
+ *
+ * To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that is
+ * present before running the comparison.
+ */
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME
+#define pte_same(pte_a,pte_b)  ((pte_present(pte_a) ? pte_val(pte_a) & 
~PTE_EXT_NG     \
+                                       : pte_val(pte_a))                       
        \
+                               == (pte_present(pte_b) ? pte_val(pte_b) & 
~PTE_EXT_NG   \
+                                       : pte_val(pte_b)))
+
 #define set_pte_ext(ptep,pte,ext) 
cpu_set_pte_ext(ptep,__pte(pte_val(pte)|(ext)))
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-- 
1.8.3.4

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