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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index ed190e42bbc5..36e00371ba5a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ void demote_segment_4k(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
* Userspace sets the subpage permissions using the subpage_prot system call.
*
* Result is 0: full permissions, _PAGE_RW: read-only,
- * _PAGE_USER or _PAGE_USER|_PAGE_RW: no access.
+ * _PAGE_RWX: no access.
*/
static int subpage_protection(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea)
{
@@ -947,8 +947,13 @@ static int subpage_protection(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea)
/* extract 2-bit bitfield for this 4k subpage */
spp >>= 30 - 2 * ((ea >> 12) & 0xf);
- /* turn 0,1,2,3 into combination of _PAGE_USER and _PAGE_RW */
- spp = ((spp & 2) ? _PAGE_USER : 0) | ((spp & 1) ? _PAGE_RW : 0);
+ /*
+ * 0 -> full premission
+ * 1 -> Read only
+ * 2 -> no access.
+ * We return the flag that need to be cleared.
+ */
+ spp = ((spp & 2) ? _PAGE_RWX : 0) | ((spp & 1) ? _PAGE_WRITE : 0);
return spp;
}