4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> commit 66dbd6e61a526ae7d11a208238ae2c17e5cacb6b upstream. When hardware updates of the access and dirty states are enabled, the default ptep_set_access_flags() implementation based on calling set_pte_at() directly is potentially racy. This triggers the "racy dirty state clearing" warning in set_pte_at() because an existing writable PTE is overridden with a clean entry. There are two main scenarios for this situation: 1. The CPU getting an access fault does not support hardware updates of the access/dirty flags. However, a different agent in the system (e.g. SMMU) can do this, therefore overriding a writable entry with a clean one could potentially lose the automatically updated dirty status 2. A more complex situation is possible when all CPUs support hardware AF/DBM: a) Initial state: shareable + writable vma and pte_none(pte) b) Read fault taken by two threads of the same process on different CPUs c) CPU0 takes the mmap_sem and proceeds to handling the fault. It eventually reaches do_set_pte() which sets a writable + clean pte. CPU0 releases the mmap_sem d) CPU1 acquires the mmap_sem and proceeds to handle_pte_fault(). The pte entry it reads is present, writable and clean and it continues to pte_mkyoung() e) CPU1 calls ptep_set_access_flags() If between (d) and (e) the hardware (another CPU) updates the dirty state (clears PTE_RDONLY), CPU1 will override the PTR_RDONLY bit marking the entry clean again. This patch implements an arm64-specific ptep_set_access_flags() function to perform an atomic update of the PTE flags. Fixes: 2f4b829c625e ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of the access and dirty pte bits") Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> [will: reworded comment] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++ arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -526,6 +526,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd } #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS +extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, + pte_t entry, int dirty); + /* * Atomic pte/pmd modifications. */ --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c @@ -81,6 +81,56 @@ void show_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsi printk("\n"); } +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM +/* + * This function sets the access flags (dirty, accessed), as well as write + * permission, and only to a more permissive setting. + * + * It needs to cope with hardware update of the accessed/dirty state by other + * agents in the system and can safely skip the __sync_icache_dcache() call as, + * like set_pte_at(), the PTE is never changed from no-exec to exec here. + * + * Returns whether or not the PTE actually changed. + */ +int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, + pte_t entry, int dirty) +{ + pteval_t old_pteval; + unsigned int tmp; + + if (pte_same(*ptep, entry)) + return 0; + + /* only preserve the access flags and write permission */ + pte_val(entry) &= PTE_AF | PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY; + + /* + * PTE_RDONLY is cleared by default in the asm below, so set it in + * back if necessary (read-only or clean PTE). + */ + if (!pte_write(entry) || !dirty) + pte_val(entry) |= PTE_RDONLY; + + /* + * Setting the flags must be done atomically to avoid racing with the + * hardware update of the access/dirty state. + */ + asm volatile("// ptep_set_access_flags\n" + " prfm pstl1strm, %2\n" + "1: ldxr %0, %2\n" + " and %0, %0, %3 // clear PTE_RDONLY\n" + " orr %0, %0, %4 // set flags\n" + " stxr %w1, %0, %2\n" + " cbnz %w1, 1b\n" + : "=&r" (old_pteval), "=&r" (tmp), "+Q" (pte_val(*ptep)) + : "L" (~PTE_RDONLY), "r" (pte_val(entry))); + + flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(vma, address); + return 1; +} +#endif + /* * The kernel tried to access some page that wasn't present. */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html