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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2026-05-29 17:02:02 +0200
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2026-06-02 16:29:16 +0100
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tree6360d271fbcf2a87e97a8c4ff638ac8ce5d943ba /scripts/Makefile.thinlto
parentd672a4b72c9542911244b0bc5d5c14c77251159c (diff)
powerpc/code-patching: Avoid r/w mapping of the zero page
The only remaining use of map_patch_area() is mapping the zero page, and immediately unmapping it again so that the intermediate page table levels are all guaranteed to be populated. The use of the zero page here is completely arbitrary, and not harmful per se, but currently, it creates a writable mapping, and does so in a manner that requires that the empty_zero_page[] symbol is not const-qualified. Given that this is about to change, and that map_patch_area() now never maps anything other than the zero page, let's simplify the code and - remove the helpers and call [un]map_kernel_page() directly - take the PA of empty_zero_page directly - create a read-only temporary mapping. This allows empty_zero_page[] to be repainted as const u8[] in a subsequent patch, without making substantial changes to this code patching logic. Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520085423.485402-1-ardb@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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