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flush_icache_range() is used for both user addresses (i.e.
cacheflush(2)), and kernel addresses (as the API documentation
describes).
This isn't really suitable however for Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA)
where cache operations on usermode addresses must use a different
instruction, and the protected cache ops assume user addresses, making
flush_icache_range() ineffective on kernel addresses.
Split out a new __flush_icache_user_range() and
__local_flush_icache_user_range() for users which actually want to flush
usermode addresses (note that flush_icache_user_range() already exists
on various architectures but with different arguments).
The implementation of flush_icache_range() will be changed in an
upcoming commit to use unprotected normal cache ops so as to always work
on the kernel mode address space.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14152/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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It's possible for pages to become visible prior to update_mmu_cache
running if a thread within the same address space preempts the current
thread or runs simultaneously on another CPU. That is, the following
scenario is possible:
CPU0 CPU1
write to page
flush_dcache_page
flush_icache_page
set_pte_at
map page
update_mmu_cache
If CPU1 maps the page in between CPU0's set_pte_at, which marks it valid
& visible, and update_mmu_cache where the dcache flush occurs then CPU1s
icache will fill from stale data (unless it fills from the dcache, in
which case all is good, but most MIPS CPUs don't have this property).
Commit 4d46a67a3eb8 ("MIPS: Fix race condition in lazy cache flushing.")
attempted to fix that by performing the dcache flush in
flush_icache_page such that it occurs before the set_pte_at call makes
the page visible. However it has the problem that not all code that
writes to pages exposed to userland call flush_icache_page. There are
many callers of set_pte_at under mm/ and only 2 of them do call
flush_icache_page. Thus the race window between a page becoming visible
& being coherent between the icache & dcache remains open in some cases.
To illustrate some of the cases, a WARN was added to __update_cache with
this patch applied that triggered in cases where a page about to be
flushed from the dcache was not the last page provided to
flush_icache_page. That is, backtraces were obtained for cases in which
the race window is left open without this patch. The 2 standout examples
follow.
When forking a process:
[ 15.271842] [<80417630>] __update_cache+0xcc/0x188
[ 15.277274] [<80530394>] copy_page_range+0x56c/0x6ac
[ 15.282861] [<8042936c>] copy_process.part.54+0xd40/0x17ac
[ 15.289028] [<80429f80>] do_fork+0xe4/0x420
[ 15.293747] [<80413808>] handle_sys+0x128/0x14c
When exec'ing an ELF binary:
[ 14.445964] [<80417630>] __update_cache+0xcc/0x188
[ 14.451369] [<80538d88>] move_page_tables+0x414/0x498
[ 14.457075] [<8055d848>] setup_arg_pages+0x220/0x318
[ 14.462685] [<805b0f38>] load_elf_binary+0x530/0x12a0
[ 14.468374] [<8055ec3c>] search_binary_handler+0xbc/0x214
[ 14.474444] [<8055f6c0>] do_execveat_common+0x43c/0x67c
[ 14.480324] [<8055f938>] do_execve+0x38/0x44
[ 14.485137] [<80413808>] handle_sys+0x128/0x14c
These code paths write into a page, call flush_dcache_page then call
set_pte_at without flush_icache_page inbetween. The end result is that
the icache can become corrupted & userland processes may execute
unexpected or invalid code, typically resulting in a reserved
instruction exception, a trap or a segfault.
Fix this race condition fully by performing any cache maintenance
required to keep the icache & dcache in sync in set_pte_at, before the
page is made valid. This has the added bonus of ensuring the cache
maintenance always happens in one location, rather than being duplicated
in flush_icache_page & update_mmu_cache. It also matches the way other
architectures solve the same problem (see arm, ia64 & powerpc).
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Reported-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@imgtec.com>
Cc: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
Fixes: 4d46a67a3eb8 ("MIPS: Fix race condition in lazy cache flushing.")
Cc: Steven J. Hill <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.1+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12722/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The flush_kernel_dcache_page function was previously essentially a nop.
This is incorrect for MIPS, where if a page has been modified & either
it aliases or it's executable & the icache doesn't fill from dcache then
the content needs to be written back from dcache to the next level of
the cache hierarchy (which is shared with the icache).
Implement this by simply calling flush_dcache_page, treating this
kmapped cache flush function (flush_kernel_dcache_page) exactly the same
as its non-kmapped counterpart (flush_dcache_page).
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12719/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The lazy cache flushing implemented in the MIPS kernel suffers from a
race condition that is exposed by do_set_pte() in mm/memory.c.
A pre-condition is a file-system that writes to the page from the CPU
in its readpage method and then calls flush_dcache_page(). One example
is ubifs. Another pre-condition is that the dcache flush is postponed
in __flush_dcache_page().
Upon a page fault for an executable mapping not existing in the
page-cache, the following will happen:
1. Write to the page
2. flush_dcache_page
3. flush_icache_page
4. set_pte_at
5. update_mmu_cache (commits the flush of a dcache-dirty page)
Between steps 4 and 5 another thread can hit the same page and it will
encounter a valid pte. Because the data still is in the L1 dcache the CPU
will fetch stale data from L2 into the icache and execute garbage.
This fix moves the commit of the cache flush to step 3 to close the
race window. It also reduces the amount of flushes on non-executable
mappings because we never enter __flush_dcache_page() for non-aliasing
CPUs.
Regressions can occur in drivers that mistakenly relies on the
flush_dcache_page() in get_user_pages() for DMA operations.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in patch 9346 to fix highmem issue.]
Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@axis.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: paul.burton@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9346/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9738/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This is identical to kmap_coherent apart from the cache coherency
attribute used for the TLB entry, so kmap_coherent is abstracted to
kmap_prot which is then called for both kmap_coherent &
kmap_noncoherent. This will be used by a subsequent patch.
Suggested-by: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
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Until now flush_kernel_vmap_range() and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() did
not exist on MIPS resulting in heavy cache corruption on XFS filesystems.
Left for the post-3.0 time: optimization and make this work with highmem,
too. Since the combination of highmem + cache aliases atm doesn't work
this isn't a regression.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2505/
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pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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