Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2018-06-04
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[PATCH] arm64: alternative:flush cache with unpatched code

From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2018-06-01 09:03:22

Hi,

As a general thing, could you please add a version number to patches in future?
i.e. this should be PATCHv4.

It really helps keeping track of patches, distinguishing versions, etc.

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:37:34PM -0700, Rohit Khanna wrote:
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In the current implementation,  __apply_alternatives patches
flush_icache_range and then executes it without invalidating the icache.
Thus, icache can contain some of the old instructions for
flush_icache_range. This can cause unpredictable behavior as during
execution we can get a mix of old and new instructions for
flush_icache_range.

This patch :

1. Adds a new function clean_dcache_range_nopatch for flushing kernel
memory range. This function uses non hot-patched code and can be
safely used to flush cache during code patching.

2. Modifies __apply_alternatives so that it uses
clean_dcache_range_nopatch to flush the cache range after patching code.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Khanna <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
index 6171178075dc..9d1aee7c9aba 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
@@ -617,6 +617,9 @@
 #define MVFR1_FPDNAN_SHIFT		4
 #define MVFR1_FPFTZ_SHIFT		0
 
+/* SYS_CTR_EL0 */
+#define SYS_CTR_ISIZE_SHIFT		0
+#define SYS_CTR_DSIZE_SHIFT		16
We already have CTR_DMINLINE_SHIFT in <asm/cache.h>

Can we please add CTR_IMINLIN_SHIFT there too?

Maybe those should be moved into sysreg.h, but that can be a separate cleanup.
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 #define ID_AA64MMFR0_TGRAN4_SHIFT	28
 #define ID_AA64MMFR0_TGRAN64_SHIFT	24
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
index 5c4bce4ac381..6b8c5438b37b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -122,6 +122,41 @@ static void patch_alternative(struct alt_instr *alt,
 	}
 }
 
+/* This is used for flushing kernel memory range after
+ * __apply_alternatives has patched kernel code
+ */
+static void clean_dcache_range_nopatch(void *start, void *end)
+{
+	u64 d_start, i_start, d_size, i_size, ctr_el0;
I don't think we need separate i_start and d_start variables. A 'start' or
'cur' variable could be used for both.
+
+	/* use sanitised value of ctr_el0 rather than raw value from CPU */
+	ctr_el0 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_CTR_EL0);
+	/* size in bytes */
+	d_size = cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(ctr_el0,
+			SYS_CTR_DSIZE_SHIFT);
+	i_size = cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(ctr_el0,
+			SYS_CTR_ISIZE_SHIFT);
This isn't the size in bytes. Each is log2 the number of (4-byte) words.

i.e. the size in bytes is (xMinLine << 2).
+
+	d_start = (u64)start & ~(d_size - 1);
+	while (d_start <= (u64)end) {
+		/* Use civac instead of cvau. This is required
+		 * due to ARM errata 826319, 827319, 824069,
+		 * 819472 on A53
+		 */
+		asm volatile("dc civac, %0" : : "r" (d_start));
Either this needs a memory clobber, or we need barrier() first, to ensure that
the compiler doesn't re-order this against some of the patching code, however
unlikely that may be.
+		d_start += d_size;
+	}
The loop can be simplified to:

	do {
		asm ( ... );
	} while (d_start += d_size, d_start < (u64)end)
+	dsb(ish);
+
+	i_start = (u64)start & ~(i_size - 1);
+	while (i_start <= (u64)end) {
+		asm volatile("ic ivau, %0" : : "r" (i_start));
+		i_start += i_size;
+	}
Likewise here.

Thanks,
Mark.
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+	dsb(ish);
+	isb();
+}
+
 static void __apply_alternatives(void *alt_region, bool use_linear_alias)
 {
 	struct alt_instr *alt;
@@ -155,7 +190,7 @@ static void __apply_alternatives(void *alt_region, bool use_linear_alias)
 
 		alt_cb(alt, origptr, updptr, nr_inst);
 
-		flush_icache_range((uintptr_t)origptr,
+		clean_dcache_range_nopatch((uintptr_t)origptr,
 				   (uintptr_t)(origptr + nr_inst));
 	}
 }
-- 
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