This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block
to the 3.14-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:
arm-8226-1-cacheflush-get-rid-of-restarting-block.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:39:04 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block
From: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
commit 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 upstream.
We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
* looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
* but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
process has to use the same range again
* ...and again, what might lead to looping forever
So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.
Reported-by: Chanho Min <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h | 11 -----------
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 31 ++-----------------------------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -43,16 +43,6 @@ struct cpu_context_save {
__u32 extra[2]; /* Xscale 'acc' register, etc */
};
-struct arm_restart_block {
- union {
- /* For user cache flushing */
- struct {
- unsigned long start;
- unsigned long end;
- } cache;
- };
-};
-
/*
* low level task data that entry.S needs immediate access to.
* __switch_to() assumes cpu_context follows immediately after cpu_domain.
@@ -78,7 +68,6 @@ struct thread_info {
unsigned long thumbee_state; /* ThumbEE Handler Base
register */
#endif
struct restart_block restart_block;
- struct arm_restart_block arm_restart_block;
};
#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -510,8 +510,6 @@ static int bad_syscall(int n, struct pt_
return regs->ARM_r0;
}
-static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *);
-
static inline int
__do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
@@ -520,24 +518,8 @@ __do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsig
do {
unsigned long chunk = min(PAGE_SIZE, end - start);
- if (signal_pending(current)) {
- struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
-
- ti->restart_block = (struct restart_block) {
- .fn = do_cache_op_restart,
- };
-
- ti->arm_restart_block = (struct arm_restart_block) {
- {
- .cache = {
- .start = start,
- .end = end,
- },
- },
- };
-
- return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
- }
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+ return 0;
ret = flush_cache_user_range(start, start + chunk);
if (ret)
@@ -550,15 +532,6 @@ __do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsig
return 0;
}
-static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *unused)
-{
- struct arm_restart_block *restart_block;
-
- restart_block = ¤t_thread_info()->arm_restart_block;
- return __do_cache_op(restart_block->cache.start,
- restart_block->cache.end);
-}
-
static inline int
do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.14/arm-8226-1-cacheflush-get-rid-of-restarting-block.patch
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