Re: [next] arm: boot failed - PC is at cpu_ca15_set_pte_ext

@@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ typedef struct {
  * @FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE: The fault is an unsharing request to unshare (and mark
  *                      exclusive) a possibly shared anonymous page that is
  *                      mapped R/O.
+ * @FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID: whether the fault has vmf->orig_pte cached.
+ *                        We should only access orig_pte if this flag set.
  *
  * About @FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and @FAULT_FLAG_TRIED: we can specify
  * whether we would allow page faults to retry by specifying these two

@@ -850,6 +852,7 @@ enum fault_flag {
 	FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION =	1 << 8,
 	FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE =	1 << 9,
 	FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE =		1 << 10,
+	FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID =	1 << 11,
 };
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_MM_TYPES_H */
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-check-against-orig_pte-for-finish_fault-fix
+++ a/mm/memory.c

@@ -4194,6 +4194,15 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, st
 	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, vmf->pte, entry);
 }
 
+static bool vmf_pte_changed(struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID) {
+		return !pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte);
+	}
+
+	return !pte_none(*vmf->pte);
+}
+
 /**
  * finish_fault - finish page fault once we have prepared the page to fault
  *

@@ -4252,7 +4261,7 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault
 				      vmf->address, &vmf->ptl);
 	ret = 0;
 	/* Re-check under ptl */
-	if (likely(pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte)))
+	if (likely(!vmf_pte_changed(vmf)))
 		do_set_pte(vmf, page, vmf->address);
 	else
 		ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;

@@ -4720,13 +4729,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struc
 		 * concurrent faults and from rmap lookups.
 		 */
 		vmf->pte = NULL;
-		/*
-		 * Always initialize orig_pte.  This matches with below
-		 * code to have orig_pte to be the none pte if pte==NULL.
-		 * This makes the rest code to be always safe to reference
-		 * it, e.g. in finish_fault() we'll detect pte changes.
-		 */
-		pte_clear(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, &vmf->orig_pte);
+		vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID;
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later.  Use

@@ -4750,6 +4753,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struc
 		 */
 		vmf->pte = pte_offset_map(vmf->pmd, vmf->address);
 		vmf->orig_pte = *vmf->pte;
+		vmf->flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID;
 
 		/*
 		 * some architectures can have larger ptes than wordsize,