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Eliminate a possible race condition for multithreaded applications in

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_pmap_allocpte(): Guarantee that the page table page is zero filled before
adding it to the directory.  Otherwise, a 2nd, 3rd, etc. thread could
access a nearby virtual address and use garbage for the address
translation.

Discussed with:	peter, tegge
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Alan Cox 2003-08-19 18:20:34 +00:00
parent c518eb4885
commit 1e584e46be
1 changed files with 2 additions and 13 deletions
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sys/i386/i386/pmap.c
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@ -1165,7 +1165,6 @@ _pmap_allocpte(pmap, ptepindex)
unsigned ptepindex;
{
vm_paddr_t ptepa;
vm_offset_t pteva;
vm_page_t m;
/*
@ -1174,6 +1173,8 @@ _pmap_allocpte(pmap, ptepindex)
VM_OBJECT_LOCK(pmap->pm_pteobj);
m = vm_page_grab(pmap->pm_pteobj, ptepindex,
VM_ALLOC_WIRED | VM_ALLOC_ZERO | VM_ALLOC_RETRY);
if ((m->flags & PG_ZERO) == 0)
pmap_zero_page(m);
KASSERT(m->queue == PQ_NONE,
("_pmap_allocpte: %p->queue != PQ_NONE", m));
@ -1195,18 +1196,6 @@ _pmap_allocpte(pmap, ptepindex)
pmap->pm_pdir[ptepindex] =
(pd_entry_t) (ptepa | PG_U | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_A | PG_M);
/*
* Try to use the new mapping, but if we cannot, then
* do it with the routine that maps the page explicitly.
*/
if ((m->flags & PG_ZERO) == 0) {
if (pmap_is_current(pmap)) {
pteva = VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS + i386_ptob(ptepindex);
bzero((caddr_t) pteva, PAGE_SIZE);
} else {
pmap_zero_page(m);
}
}
vm_page_lock_queues();
m->valid = VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL;
vm_page_flag_clear(m, PG_ZERO);