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x86: cpa, fix lookup_address

lookup_address() returns a wrong level and a wrong pointer to a non
existing pte, when pmd or pud entries are marked !present. This
happens for example due to boot time mapping of GART into the low
memory space.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Gleixner 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 9 1
      arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

+ 9 - 1
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

@@ -188,6 +188,14 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address)
 	return prot;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Lookup the page table entry for a virtual address. Return a pointer
+ * to the entry and the level of the mapping.
+ *
+ * Note: We return pud and pmd either when the entry is marked large
+ * or when the present bit is not set. Otherwise we would return a
+ * pointer to a nonexisting mapping.
+ */
 pte_t *lookup_address(unsigned long address, int *level)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(address);
@@ -206,7 +214,7 @@ pte_t *lookup_address(unsigned long address, int *level)
 		return NULL;
 
 	*level = PG_LEVEL_2M;
-	if (pmd_large(*pmd))
+	if (pmd_large(*pmd) || !pmd_present(*pmd))
 		return (pte_t *)pmd;
 
 	*level = PG_LEVEL_4K;