This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/64s: Fix pte update for kernel memory on radix to the 5.10-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: powerpc-64s-fix-pte-update-for-kernel-memory-on-radi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e91ba5891122a06755f5e7e29d86cdb37b72b46b Author: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 8 14:29:56 2021 +1100 powerpc/64s: Fix pte update for kernel memory on radix [ Upstream commit b8b2f37cf632434456182e9002d63cbc4cccc50c ] When adding a PTE a ptesync is needed to order the update of the PTE with subsequent accesses otherwise a spurious fault may be raised. radix__set_pte_at() does not do this for performance gains. For non-kernel memory this is not an issue as any faults of this kind are corrected by the page fault handler. For kernel memory these faults are not handled. The current solution is that there is a ptesync in flush_cache_vmap() which should be called when mapping from the vmalloc region. However, map_kernel_page() does not call flush_cache_vmap(). This is troublesome in particular for code patching with Strict RWX on radix. In do_patch_instruction() the page frame that contains the instruction to be patched is mapped and then immediately patched. With no ordering or synchronization between setting up the PTE and writing to the page it is possible for faults. As the code patching is done using __put_user_asm_goto() the resulting fault is obscured - but using a normal store instead it can be seen: BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc008000008f24a3c Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000008bd74 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: nop_module(PO+) [last unloaded: nop_module] CPU: 4 PID: 757 Comm: sh Tainted: P O 5.10.0-rc5-01361-ge3c1b78c8440-dirty #43 NIP: c00000000008bd74 LR: c00000000008bd50 CTR: c000000000025810 REGS: c000000016f634a0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: P O (5.10.0-rc5-01361-ge3c1b78c8440-dirty) MSR: 9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44002884 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c00000000007c68c DAR: c008000008f24a3c DSISR: 42000000 IRQMASK: 1 This results in the kind of issue reported here: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/15AC5B0E-A221-4B8C-9039-FA96B8EF7C88@xxxxxx/ Chris Riedl suggested a reliable way to reproduce the issue: $ mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug $ (while true; do echo function > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer ; echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer ; done) & Turning ftrace on and off does a large amount of code patching which in usually less then 5min will crash giving a trace like: ftrace-powerpc: (____ptrval____): replaced (4b473b11) != old (60000000) ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------ ftrace failed to modify [<c000000000bf8e5c>] napi_busy_loop+0xc/0x390 actual: 11:3b:47:4b Setting ftrace call site to call ftrace function ftrace record flags: 80000001 (1) expected tramp: c00000000006c96c ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 809 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2065 ftrace_bug+0x28c/0x2e8 Modules linked in: nop_module(PO-) [last unloaded: nop_module] CPU: 4 PID: 809 Comm: sh Tainted: P O 5.10.0-rc5-01360-gf878ccaf250a #1 NIP: c00000000024f334 LR: c00000000024f330 CTR: c0000000001a5af0 REGS: c000000004c8b760 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: P O (5.10.0-rc5-01360-gf878ccaf250a) MSR: 900000000282b033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28008848 XER: 20040000 CFAR: c0000000001a9c98 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c00000000024f330 c000000004c8b9f0 c000000002770600 0000000000000022 GPR04: 00000000ffff7fff c000000004c8b6d0 0000000000000027 c0000007fe9bcdd8 GPR08: 0000000000000023 ffffffffffffffd8 0000000000000027 c000000002613118 GPR12: 0000000000008000 c0000007fffdca00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000023ec37c5 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 GPR20: c000000004c8bc90 c0000000027a2d20 c000000004c8bcd0 c000000002612fe8 GPR24: 0000000000000038 0000000000000030 0000000000000028 0000000000000020 GPR28: c000000000ff1b68 c000000000bf8e5c c00000000312f700 c000000000fbb9b0 NIP ftrace_bug+0x28c/0x2e8 LR ftrace_bug+0x288/0x2e8 Call Trace: ftrace_bug+0x288/0x2e8 (unreliable) ftrace_modify_all_code+0x168/0x210 arch_ftrace_update_code+0x18/0x30 ftrace_run_update_code+0x44/0xc0 ftrace_startup+0xf8/0x1c0 register_ftrace_function+0x4c/0xc0 function_trace_init+0x80/0xb0 tracing_set_tracer+0x2a4/0x4f0 tracing_set_trace_write+0xd4/0x130 vfs_write+0xf0/0x330 ksys_write+0x84/0x140 system_call_exception+0x14c/0x230 system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c To fix this when updating kernel memory PTEs using ptesync. Fixes: f1cb8f9beba8 ("powerpc/64s/radix: avoid ptesync after set_pte and ptep_set_access_flags") Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> [mpe: Tidy up change log slightly] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208032957.1232102-1-jniethe5@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h index c7813dc628fc..59cab558e2f0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h @@ -222,8 +222,10 @@ static inline void radix__set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, * from ptesync, it should probably go into update_mmu_cache, rather * than set_pte_at (which is used to set ptes unrelated to faults). * - * Spurious faults to vmalloc region are not tolerated, so there is - * a ptesync in flush_cache_vmap. + * Spurious faults from the kernel memory are not tolerated, so there + * is a ptesync in flush_cache_vmap, and __map_kernel_page() follows + * the pte update sequence from ISA Book III 6.10 Translation Table + * Update Synchronization Requirements. */ } diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c index 3adcf730f478..1d5eec847b88 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static int early_map_kernel_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long pa, set_the_pte: set_pte_at(&init_mm, ea, ptep, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); - smp_wmb(); + asm volatile("ptesync": : :"memory"); return 0; } @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int __map_kernel_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long pa, set_the_pte: set_pte_at(&init_mm, ea, ptep, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); - smp_wmb(); + asm volatile("ptesync": : :"memory"); return 0; }