FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: mm: Add PTE_DIRTY back to PAGE_KERNEL* to fix" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

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2026-03-17 12:02 UTC #0 lore raw

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x c25c4aa3f79a488cc270507935a29c07dc6bddfc
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026031755-deed-balancing-9a48@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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From c25c4aa3f79a488cc270507935a29c07dc6bddfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:53:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Add PTE_DIRTY back to PAGE_KERNEL* to fix
kexec/hibernation

Commit 143937ca51cc ("arm64, mm: avoid always making PTE dirty in pte_mkwrite()") changed pte_mkwrite_novma() to only clear PTE_RDONLY when PTE_DIRTY is set. This was to allow writable-clean PTEs for swap pages that haven't actually been written.

However, this broke kexec and hibernation for some platforms. Both go through trans_pgd_create_copy() -> _copy_pte(), which calls pte_mkwrite_novma() to make the temporary linear-map copy fully writable. With the updated pte_mkwrite_novma(), read-only kernel pages (without PTE_DIRTY) remain read-only in the temporary mapping. While such behaviour is fine for user pages where hardware DBM or trapping will make them writeable, subsequent in-kernel writes by the kexec relocation code will fault.

Add PTE_DIRTY back to all _PAGE_KERNEL* protection definitions. This was the case prior to 5.4, commit aa57157be69f ("arm64: Ensure VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED ptes are clean by default"). With the kernel linear-map PTEs always having PTE_DIRTY set, pte_mkwrite_novma() correctly clears PTE_RDONLY.

Fixes 143937ca51cc ("arm64, mm: avoid always making PTE dirty in pte_mkwrite()")

Signed-off-by Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Reported-by Jianpeng Chang <[email protected]>

Link https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here

Cc Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Cc Huang, Ying <[email protected]>

Cc Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Huang Ying <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Will Deacon <[email protected]>

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h +5 -5

index 2b32639160de..f560e6420267 100644
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@
 
 #define _PAGE_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
 
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL		(PROT_NORMAL)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO		((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX	((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	(PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL		(PROT_NORMAL | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO		((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX	((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT | PTE_DIRTY)
 
 #define _PAGE_SHARED		(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
 #define _PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)

Sasha Levin

maintainer

2026-03-18 11:51 UTC #1 lore raw

PATCH 1/2 arm64: reorganise PAGE_/PROT_ macros

From: Joey Gouly <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit fa4cdccaa58224a12591f2c045c24abc5251bb9d ]

Make these macros available to assembly code, so they can be re-used by the PIE initialisation code.

This involves adding some extra macros, prepended with _ that are the raw values not pgprot values.

A dummy value for PTE_MAYBE_NG is also provided, for use in assembly.

Signed-off-by Joey Gouly <[email protected]>

Cc Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Cc Mark Rutland <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

Link https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here

Signed-off-by Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

Stable-dep-of: c25c4aa3f79a ("arm64: mm: Add PTE_DIRTY back to PAGE_KERNEL* to fix kexec/hibernation")

Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 72 ++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h +44 ~~-28~~

index 9b165117a4545..82bfd88a2e4ea 100644
@@ -27,6 +27,40 @@
  */
 #define PMD_PRESENT_INVALID	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 59) /* only when !PMD_SECT_VALID */
 
+#define _PROT_DEFAULT		(PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_AF | PTE_SHARED)
+#define _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT	(PMD_TYPE_SECT | PMD_SECT_AF | PMD_SECT_S)
+
+#define PROT_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_MAYBE_NG)
+#define PROT_SECT_DEFAULT	(_PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_MAYBE_NG)
+
+#define PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE))
+#define PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE))
+#define PROT_NORMAL_NC		(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
+#define PROT_NORMAL		(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
+#define PROT_NORMAL_TAGGED	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_TAGGED))
+
+#define PROT_SECT_DEVICE_nGnRE	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE))
+#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
+#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL_EXEC	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
+
+#define _PAGE_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
+
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL		(PROT_NORMAL)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO		((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX	((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	(PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT)
+
+#define _PAGE_SHARED		(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
+#define _PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)
+#define _PAGE_READONLY		(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
+#define _PAGE_READONLY_EXEC	(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
+#define _PAGE_EXECONLY		(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
+
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
+#define PTE_MAYBE_NG	0
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>

@@ -34,9 +68,6 @@
 
 extern bool arm64_use_ng_mappings;
 
-#define _PROT_DEFAULT		(PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_AF | PTE_SHARED)
-#define _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT	(PMD_TYPE_SECT | PMD_SECT_AF | PMD_SECT_S)
-
 #define PTE_MAYBE_NG		(arm64_use_ng_mappings ? PTE_NG : 0)
 #define PMD_MAYBE_NG		(arm64_use_ng_mappings ? PMD_SECT_NG : 0)

@@ -50,26 +81,11 @@ extern bool arm64_use_ng_mappings;
 #define PTE_MAYBE_GP		0
 #endif
 
-#define PROT_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_MAYBE_NG)
-#define PROT_SECT_DEFAULT	(_PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_MAYBE_NG)
-
-#define PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE))
-#define PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE))
-#define PROT_NORMAL_NC		(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
-#define PROT_NORMAL		(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
-#define PROT_NORMAL_TAGGED	(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_TAGGED))
-
-#define PROT_SECT_DEVICE_nGnRE	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE))
-#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_PXN | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
-#define PROT_SECT_NORMAL_EXEC	(PROT_SECT_DEFAULT | PMD_SECT_UXN | PMD_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
-
-#define _PAGE_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
-
-#define PAGE_KERNEL		__pgprot(PROT_NORMAL)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_RO		__pgprot((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_ROX		__pgprot((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	__pgprot(PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	__pgprot((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL		__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_RO		__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_RO)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_ROX		__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_ROX)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT)
 
 #define PAGE_S2_MEMATTR(attr, has_fwb)					\
 	({								\

@@ -83,11 +99,11 @@ extern bool arm64_use_ng_mappings;
 
 #define PAGE_NONE		__pgprot(((_PAGE_DEFAULT) & ~PTE_VALID) | PTE_PROT_NONE | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
 /* shared+writable pages are clean by default, hence PTE_RDONLY|PTE_WRITE */
-#define PAGE_SHARED		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
-#define PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)
-#define PAGE_READONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
-#define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
-#define PAGE_EXECONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
+#define PAGE_SHARED		__pgprot(_PAGE_SHARED)
+#define PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_SHARED_EXEC)
+#define PAGE_READONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_READONLY)
+#define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC	__pgprot(_PAGE_READONLY_EXEC)
+#define PAGE_EXECONLY		__pgprot(_PAGE_EXECONLY)
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

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Sasha Levin

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2026-03-18 11:51 UTC #2 lore raw

PATCH 2/2 arm64: mm: Add PTE_DIRTY back to PAGE_KERNEL* to fix kexec/hibernation

From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c25c4aa3f79a488cc270507935a29c07dc6bddfc ]

Fixes 143937ca51cc ("arm64, mm: avoid always making PTE dirty in pte_mkwrite()")

Signed-off-by Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Reported-by Jianpeng Chang <[email protected]>

Link https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here

Cc Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Cc Huang, Ying <[email protected]>

Cc Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Huang Ying <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h +5 -5

index 82bfd88a2e4ea..b305deb1deb84 100644
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@
 
 #define _PAGE_DEFAULT		(_PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL))
 
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL		(PROT_NORMAL)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO		((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX	((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	(PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN)
-#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL		(PROT_NORMAL | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO		((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_WRITE) | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX	((PROT_NORMAL & ~(PTE_WRITE | PTE_PXN)) | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_DIRTY)
+#define _PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT	((PROT_NORMAL & ~PTE_PXN) | PTE_CONT | PTE_DIRTY)
 
 #define _PAGE_SHARED		(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
 #define _PAGE_SHARED_EXEC	(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)

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