i386: avoid temporarily inconsistent pte-s From: "Jan Beulich" One more of these issues (which were considered fixed a few releases back): Other than on x86-64, i386 allows set_fixmap() to replace already present mappings. Consequently, on PAE, care must be taken to not update the high half of a pte while the low half is still holding the old value. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c +++ linux/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c @@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ static void set_pte_pfn(unsigned long va } pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, vaddr); if (pgprot_val(flags)) - /* stored as-is, to permit clearing entries */ - set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); + set_pte_present(&init_mm, vaddr, pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); else pte_clear(&init_mm, vaddr, pte);