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x86/mm: Ensure forced page table splitting
There are a few kernel users like kfence that require 4k pages to work correctly and do not support large mappings. They use set_memory_4k() to break down those large mappings. That, in turn relies on cpa_data->force_split option to indicate to set_memory code that it should split page tables regardless of whether the need to be. But, a recent change added an optimization which would return early if a set_memory request came in that did not change permissions. It did not consult ->force_split and would mistakenly optimize away the splitting that set_memory_4k() needs. This broke kfence. Skip the same-permission optimization when ->force_split is set. Fixes: 127960a ("x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Tested-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYuFxZTxkeS35VTZMXwQvohu73W3xbZ5NtjebsVvH6hCuA@mail.gmail.com/
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