[PATCH 4.4 15/21] parisc: Fix race in pci-dma.c

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>

commit c0452fb9fb8f49c7d68ab9fa0ad092016be7b45f upstream.

We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and
memory memory corruption on SMP machines.  The causes quite a few
package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc.  When
gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB
related code.  I found a couple of issues.  This is the first.

In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TLB
purges are atomic.  The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c
where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.  So far, no further random segmentation
faults have been observed.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ static inline int map_pte_uncached(pte_t
 
 		if (!pte_none(*pte))
 			printk(KERN_ERR "map_pte_uncached: page already exists\n");
-		set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC));
 		purge_tlb_start(flags);
+		set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC));
 		pdtlb_kernel(orig_vaddr);
 		purge_tlb_end(flags);
 		vaddr += PAGE_SIZE;


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