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>
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>
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/
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>
Lars Persson