arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM

When hardware updates of the access and dirty states are enabled, the
default ptep_set_access_flags() implementation based on calling
set_pte_at() directly is potentially racy. This triggers the "racy dirty
state clearing" warning in set_pte_at() because an existing writable PTE
is overridden with a clean entry.

There are two main scenarios for this situation:

1. The CPU getting an access fault does not support hardware updates of
   the access/dirty flags. However, a different agent in the system
   (e.g. SMMU) can do this, therefore overriding a writable entry with a
   clean one could potentially lose the automatically updated dirty
   status

2. A more complex situation is possible when all CPUs support hardware
   AF/DBM:

   a) Initial state: shareable + writable vma and pte_none(pte)
   b) Read fault taken by two threads of the same process on different
      CPUs
   c) CPU0 takes the mmap_sem and proceeds to handling the fault. It
      eventually reaches do_set_pte() which sets a writable + clean pte.
      CPU0 releases the mmap_sem
   d) CPU1 acquires the mmap_sem and proceeds to handle_pte_fault(). The
      pte entry it reads is present, writable and clean and it continues
      to pte_mkyoung()
   e) CPU1 calls ptep_set_access_flags()

   If between (d) and (e) the hardware (another CPU) updates the dirty
   state (clears PTE_RDONLY), CPU1 will override the PTR_RDONLY bit
   marking the entry clean again.

This patch implements an arm64-specific ptep_set_access_flags() function
to perform an atomic update of the PTE flags.

Fixes: 2f4b829c625e ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of the access and dirty pte bits")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
[will: reworded comment]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 3c91b179089a..3eefc181d00b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -535,6 +535,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
+extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				 unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
+				 pte_t entry, int dirty);
+
 /*
  * Atomic pte/pmd modifications.
  */