parisc: Update comments in make_insert_tlb
commit cb22f247 upstream. The following testcase exposed a problem with our read access checks in get_user() and raw_copy_from_user(): #include <stdint.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/types.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned long page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); char *p = malloc(3 * page_size); char *p_aligned; /* initialize memory region. If not initialized, write syscall below will correctly return EFAULT. */ if (1) memset(p, 'X', 3 * page_size); p_aligned = (char *) ((((uintptr_t) p) + (2*page_size - 1)) & ~(page_size - 1)); /* Drop PROT_READ protection. Kernel and userspace should fault when accessing that memory region */ mprotect(p_aligned, page_size, PROT_NONE); /* the following write() should return EFAULT, since PROT_READ was dropped by previous mprotect() */ int ret = write(2, p_aligned, 1); if (!ret || errno != EFAULT) printf("\n FAILURE: write() did not returned expected EFAULT value\n"); return 0; } Because of the way _PAGE_READ is handled, kernel code never generates a read access fault when it access a page as the kernel privilege level is always less than PL1 in the PTE. This patch reworks the comments in the make_insert_tlb macro to try to make this clearer. Signed-off-by:John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+ Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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