This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/64s: Initialize ISAv3 MMU registers before setting partition table
to the 4.9-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-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 371b80447ff33ddac392c189cf884a5a3e18faeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:21:14 +1000
Subject: powerpc/64s: Initialize ISAv3 MMU registers before setting partition table
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 371b80447ff33ddac392c189cf884a5a3e18faeb upstream.
kexec can leave MMU registers set when booting into a new kernel,
the PIDR (Process Identification Register) in particular. The boot
sequence does not zero PIDR, so it only gets set when CPUs first
switch to a userspace processes (until then it's running a kernel
thread with effective PID = 0).
This leaves a window where a process table entry and page tables are
set up due to user processes running on other CPUs, that happen to
match with a stale PID. The CPU with that PID may cause speculative
accesses that address quadrant 0 (aka userspace addresses), which will
result in cached translations and PWC (Page Walk Cache) for that
process, on a CPU which is not in the mm_cpumask and so they will not
be invalidated properly.
The most common result is the kernel hanging in infinite page fault
loops soon after kexec (usually in schedule_tail, which is usually the
first non-speculative quadrant 0 access to a new PID) due to a stale
PWC. However being a stale translation error, it could result in
anything up to security and data corruption problems.
Fix this by zeroing out PIDR at boot and kexec.
Fixes: 7e381c0ff618 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add mmu context handling callback for radix")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ _GLOBAL(__setup_cpu_power9)
beqlr
li r0,0
mtspr SPRN_LPID,r0
+ mtspr SPRN_PID,r0
mfspr r3,SPRN_LPCR
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, LPCR_PECEDH | LPCR_PECE_HVEE | LPCR_HVICE)
or r3, r3, r4
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ _GLOBAL(__restore_cpu_power9)
beqlr
li r0,0
mtspr SPRN_LPID,r0
+ mtspr SPRN_PID,r0
mfspr r3,SPRN_LPCR
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, LPCR_PECEDH | LPCR_PECE_HVEE | LPCR_HVICE)
or r3, r3, r4
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch