Re: Patch "arm64: mm: use correct mapping granularity under DEBUG_RODATA" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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On 27 January 2016 at 07:54,  <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
>     arm64: mm: use correct mapping granularity under DEBUG_RODATA
>
> to the 4.1-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:
>      arm64-mm-use-correct-mapping-granularity-under-debug_rodata.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>

Apologies for the late notice: as mentioned in the other thread, this
will fail to build due to a missing #define of SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE. I
will submit a new version specific to -stable (which just adds the
#define locally)

Thanks,
Ard.


>
> From 4fee9f364b9b99f76732f2a6fd6df679a237fa74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:18:14 +0100
> Subject: arm64: mm: use correct mapping granularity under DEBUG_RODATA
>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 4fee9f364b9b99f76732f2a6fd6df679a237fa74 upstream.
>
> When booting a 64k pages kernel that is built with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> and resides at an offset that is not a multiple of 512 MB, the rounding
> that occurs in __map_memblock() and fixup_executable() results in
> incorrect regions being mapped.
>
> The following snippet from /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables shows
> how, when the kernel is loaded 2 MB above the base of DRAM at 0x40000000,
> the first 2 MB of memory (which may be inaccessible from non-secure EL1
> or just reserved by the firmware) is inadvertently mapped into the end of
> the module region.
>
>   ---[ Modules start ]---
>   0xfffffdffffe00000-0xfffffe0000000000     2M RW NX ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   ---[ Modules end ]---
>   ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
>   0xfffffe0000000000-0xfffffe0000090000   576K RW NX ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   0xfffffe0000090000-0xfffffe0000200000  1472K ro x  ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   0xfffffe0000200000-0xfffffe0000800000     6M ro x  ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   0xfffffe0000800000-0xfffffe0000810000    64K ro x  ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   0xfffffe0000810000-0xfffffe0000a00000  1984K RW NX ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>   0xfffffe0000a00000-0xfffffe00ffe00000  4084M RW NX ... UXN MEM/NORMAL
>
> The same issue is likely to occur on 16k pages kernels whose load
> address is not a multiple of 32 MB (i.e., SECTION_SIZE). So round to
> SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE instead of SECTION_SIZE.
>
> Fixes: da141706aea5 ("arm64: add better page protections to arm64")
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c |   12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(phys_a
>          * for now. This will get more fine grained later once all memory
>          * is mapped
>          */
> -       unsigned long kernel_x_start = round_down(__pa(_stext), SECTION_SIZE);
> -       unsigned long kernel_x_end = round_up(__pa(__init_end), SECTION_SIZE);
> +       unsigned long kernel_x_start = round_down(__pa(_stext), SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
> +       unsigned long kernel_x_end = round_up(__pa(__init_end), SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
>
>         if (end < kernel_x_start) {
>                 create_mapping(start, __phys_to_virt(start),
> @@ -396,18 +396,18 @@ void __init fixup_executable(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
>         /* now that we are actually fully mapped, make the start/end more fine grained */
> -       if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)_stext, SECTION_SIZE)) {
> +       if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)_stext, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE)) {
>                 unsigned long aligned_start = round_down(__pa(_stext),
> -                                                       SECTION_SIZE);
> +                                                        SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
>
>                 create_mapping(aligned_start, __phys_to_virt(aligned_start),
>                                 __pa(_stext) - aligned_start,
>                                 PAGE_KERNEL);
>         }
>
> -       if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)__init_end, SECTION_SIZE)) {
> +       if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)__init_end, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE)) {
>                 unsigned long aligned_end = round_up(__pa(__init_end),
> -                                                       SECTION_SIZE);
> +                                                         SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
>                 create_mapping(__pa(__init_end), (unsigned long)__init_end,
>                                 aligned_end - __pa(__init_end),
>                                 PAGE_KERNEL);
>
>
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx are
>
> queue-4.1/arm-arm64-kvm-test-properly-for-a-pte-s-uncachedness.patch
> queue-4.1/arm64-mm-use-correct-mapping-granularity-under-debug_rodata.patch
> queue-4.1/arm-arm64-kvm-correct-pte-uncachedness-check.patch
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