mm/debug_vm_pgtable: drop RANDOM_ORVALUE trick
Macro RANDOM_ORVALUE was used to make sure the pgtable entry will be populated with !none data in clear tests. The RANDOM_ORVALUE tried to cover mostly all the bits in a pgtable entry, even if there's no discussion on whether all the bits will be vaild. Both S390 and PPC64 have their own masks to avoid touching some bits. Now it's the turn for x86_64. The issue is there's a recent report from Mikhail Gavrilov showing that this can cause a warning with the newly added pte set check in commit 8430557f on writable v.s. userfaultfd-wp bit, even though the check itself was valid, the random pte is not. We can choose to mask more bits out. However the need to have such random bits setup is questionable, as now it's already guaranteed to be true on below: - For pte level, the pgtable entry will be installed with value from pfn_pte(), where pfn points to a valid page. Hence the pte will be !none already if populated with pfn_pte(). - For upper-than-pte level, the pgtable entry should contain a directory entry always, which is also !none. All the cases look like good enough to test a pxx_clear() helper. Instead of extending the bitmask, drop the "set random bits" trick completely. Add some warning guards to make sure the entries will be !none before clear(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240523132139.289719-1-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: 8430557f ("mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CABXGCsMB9A8-X+Np_Q+fWLURYL_0t3Y-MdoNabDM-Lzk58-DGA@mail.gmail.comTested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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