5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Simon Schuster schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com
[ Upstream commit 2d8a3179ea035f9341b6a73e5ba4029fc67e983d ]
NIOS2 uses a software-managed TLB for virtual address translation. To flush a cache line, the original mapping is replaced by one to physical address 0x0 with no permissions (rwx mapped to 0) set. This can lead to TLB-permission--related traps when such a nominally flushed entry is encountered as a mapping for an otherwise valid virtual address within a process (e.g. due to an MMU-PID-namespace rollover that previously flushed the complete TLB including entries of existing, running processes).
The default ptep_set_access_flags implementation from mm/pgtable-generic.c only forces a TLB-update when the page-table entry has changed within the page table:
/* * [...] We return whether the PTE actually changed, which in turn * instructs the caller to do things like update__mmu_cache. [...] */ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, pte_t entry, int dirty) { int changed = !pte_same(*ptep, entry); if (changed) { set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep, entry); flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(vma, address); } return changed; }
However, no cross-referencing with the TLB-state occurs, so the flushing-induced pseudo entries that are responsible for the pagefault in the first place are never pre-empted from TLB on this code path.
This commit fixes this behaviour by always requesting a TLB-update in this part of the pagefault handling, fixing spurious page-faults on the way. The handling is a straightforward port of the logic from the MIPS architecture via an arch-specific ptep_set_access_flags function ported from arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com Signed-off-by: Andreas Oetken andreas.oetken@siemens-energy.com Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen dinguyen@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h index 99985d8b71664..506bbc7730879 100644 --- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -297,4 +297,20 @@ extern void __init mmu_init(void); extern void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *pte);
+static inline int pte_same(pte_t pte_a, pte_t pte_b); + +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS +static inline int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, + pte_t entry, int dirty) +{ + if (!pte_same(*ptep, entry)) + set_ptes(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep, entry, 1); + /* + * update_mmu_cache will unconditionally execute, handling both + * the case that the PTE changed and the spurious fault case. + */ + return true; +} + #endif /* _ASM_NIOS2_PGTABLE_H */