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| author | Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> | 2016-04-15 17:38:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2016-04-21 10:50:09 +0300 |
| commit | 723cacbd9dc79582e562c123a0bacf8bfc69e72a (patch) | |
| tree | cae93823c3e8a37ef012b85b38d48e9e1bc19762 /arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | |
| parent | dba599091c191d209b1499511a524ad9657c0e5a (diff) | |
| download | linux-723cacbd9dc79582e562c123a0bacf8bfc69e72a.tar.xz | |
s390/mm: fix asce_bits handling with dynamic pagetable levels
There is a race with multi-threaded applications between context switch and
pagetable upgrade. In switch_mm() a new user_asce is built from mm->pgd and
mm->context.asce_bits, w/o holding any locks. A concurrent mmap with a
pagetable upgrade on another thread in crst_table_upgrade() could already
have set new asce_bits, but not yet the new mm->pgd. This would result in a
corrupt user_asce in switch_mm(), and eventually in a kernel panic from a
translation exception.
Fix this by storing the complete asce instead of just the asce_bits, which
can then be read atomically from switch_mm(), so that it either sees the
old value or the new value, but no mixture. Both cases are OK. Having the
old value would result in a page fault on access to the higher level memory,
but the fault handler would see the new mm->pgd, if it was a valid access
after the mmap on the other thread has completed. So as worst-case scenario
we would have a page fault loop for the racing thread until the next time
slice.
Also remove dead code and simplify the upgrade/downgrade path, there are no
upgrades from 2 levels, and only downgrades from 3 levels for compat tasks.
There are also no concurrent upgrades, because the mmap_sem is held with
down_write() in do_mmap, so the flush and table checks during upgrade can
be removed.
Reported-by: Michael Munday <munday@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h index d6fd22ea270d..18cdede1aeda 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ extern __vector128 init_task_fpu_regs[__NUM_VXRS]; regs->psw.mask = PSW_USER_BITS | PSW_MASK_BA; \ regs->psw.addr = new_psw; \ regs->gprs[15] = new_stackp; \ - crst_table_downgrade(current->mm, 1UL << 31); \ + crst_table_downgrade(current->mm); \ execve_tail(); \ } while (0) |