This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mips-tlbex-properly-fix-huge-tlb-refill-exception-handler.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 9e0f162a36914937a937358fcb45e0609ef2bfc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Daney <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:34:23 -0700
Subject: MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler
From: David Daney <[email protected]>
commit 9e0f162a36914937a937358fcb45e0609ef2bfc4 upstream.
In commit 8393c524a25609 (MIPS: tlbex: Fix a missing statement for
HUGETLB), the TLB Refill handler was fixed so that non-OCTEON targets
would work properly with huge pages. The change was incorrect in that
it broke the OCTEON case.
The problem is shown here:
xxx0: df7a0000 ld k0,0(k1)
.
.
.
xxxc0: df610000 ld at,0(k1)
xxxc4: 335a0ff0 andi k0,k0,0xff0
xxxc8: e825ffcd bbit1 at,0x5,0x0
xxxcc: 003ad82d daddu k1,at,k0
.
.
.
In the non-octeon case there is a destructive test for the huge PTE
bit, and then at 0, $k0 is reloaded (that is what the 8393c524a25609
patch added).
In the octeon case, we modify k1 in the branch delay slot, but we
never need k0 again, so the new load is not needed, but since k1 is
modified, if we do the load, we load from a garbage location and then
get a nested TLB Refill, which is seen in userspace as either SIGBUS
or SIGSEGV (depending on the garbage).
The real fix is to only do this reloading if it is needed, and never
where it is harmful.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email protected]>
Cc: Huacai Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Fuxin Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhangjin Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8151/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ static void build_update_entries(u32 **p
struct mips_huge_tlb_info {
int huge_pte;
int restore_scratch;
+ bool need_reload_pte;
};
static struct mips_huge_tlb_info
@@ -1076,6 +1077,7 @@ build_fast_tlb_refill_handler (u32 **p,
rv.huge_pte = scratch;
rv.restore_scratch = 0;
+ rv.need_reload_pte = false;
if (check_for_high_segbits) {
UASM_i_MFC0(p, tmp, C0_BADVADDR);
@@ -1264,6 +1266,7 @@ static void build_r4000_tlb_refill_handl
} else {
htlb_info.huge_pte = K0;
htlb_info.restore_scratch = 0;
+ htlb_info.need_reload_pte = true;
vmalloc_mode = refill_noscratch;
/*
* create the plain linear handler
@@ -1300,7 +1303,8 @@ static void build_r4000_tlb_refill_handl
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_HUGE_TLB_SUPPORT
uasm_l_tlb_huge_update(&l, p);
- UASM_i_LW(&p, K0, 0, K1);
+ if (htlb_info.need_reload_pte)
+ UASM_i_LW(&p, htlb_info.huge_pte, 0, K1);
build_huge_update_entries(&p, htlb_info.huge_pte, K1);
build_huge_tlb_write_entry(&p, &l, &r, K0, tlb_random,
htlb_info.restore_scratch);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.17/mips-tlbex-properly-fix-huge-tlb-refill-exception-handler.patch
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