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Jike Song committed 8d56eff266f
x86/mm/pti: Remove dead logic in pti_user_pagetable_walk*() The following code contains dead logic: 162 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) { 163 unsigned long new_p4d_page = __get_free_page(gfp); 164 if (!new_p4d_page) 165 return NULL; 166 167 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) { 168 set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page))); 169 new_p4d_page = 0; 170 } 171 if (new_p4d_page) 172 free_page(new_p4d_page); 173 } There can't be any difference between two pgd_none(*pgd) at L162 and L167, so it's always false at L171. Dave Hansen explained: Yes, the double-test was part of an optimization where we attempted to avoid using a global spinlock in the fork() path. We would check for unallocated mid-level page tables without the lock. The lock was only taken when we needed to *make* an entry to avoid collisions. Now that it is all single-threaded, there is no chance of a collision, no need for a lock, and no need for the re-check. As all these functions are only called during init, mark them __init as well. Fixes: 03f4424f348e ("x86/mm/pti: Add functions to clone kernel PMDs") Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Koshina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Andi Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108160341.3461-1-albcamus@gmail.com