Thread (235 messages) 235 messages, 6 authors, 2016-07-30

[added to the 3.18 stable tree] arm64: mm: remove page_mapping check in __sync_icache_dcache

From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-12 03:02:29
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

From: Shaokun Zhang <redacted>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

[ Upstream commit 20c27a4270c775d7ed661491af8ac03264d60fc6 ]

__sync_icache_dcache unconditionally skips the cache maintenance for
anonymous pages, under the assumption that flushing is only required in
the presence of D-side aliases [see 7249b79f6b4cc ("arm64: Do not flush
the D-cache for anonymous pages")].

Unfortunately, this breaks migration of anonymous pages holding
self-modifying code, where userspace cannot be reasonably expected to
reissue maintenance instructions in response to a migration.

This patch fixes the problem by removing the broken page_mapping(page)
check from the cache syncing code, otherwise we may end up fetching and
executing stale instructions from the PoU.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
index b6f14e8..bfb8eb16 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pte, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	struct page *page = pte_page(pte);
 
-	/* no flushing needed for anonymous pages */
-	if (!page_mapping(page))
-		return;
-
 	if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags)) {
 		__flush_dcache_area(page_address(page),
 				PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page));
-- 
2.5.0
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