This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler to the 3.14-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: mips-tlbex-properly-fix-huge-tlb-refill-exception-handler.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9e0f162a36914937a937358fcb45e0609ef2bfc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:34:23 -0700 Subject: MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9e0f162a36914937a937358fcb45e0609ef2bfc4 upstream. In commit 8393c524a25609 (MIPS: tlbex: Fix a missing statement for HUGETLB), the TLB Refill handler was fixed so that non-OCTEON targets would work properly with huge pages. The change was incorrect in that it broke the OCTEON case. The problem is shown here: xxx0: df7a0000 ld k0,0(k1) . . . xxxc0: df610000 ld at,0(k1) xxxc4: 335a0ff0 andi k0,k0,0xff0 xxxc8: e825ffcd bbit1 at,0x5,0x0 xxxcc: 003ad82d daddu k1,at,k0 . . . In the non-octeon case there is a destructive test for the huge PTE bit, and then at 0, $k0 is reloaded (that is what the 8393c524a25609 patch added). In the octeon case, we modify k1 in the branch delay slot, but we never need k0 again, so the new load is not needed, but since k1 is modified, if we do the load, we load from a garbage location and then get a nested TLB Refill, which is seen in userspace as either SIGBUS or SIGSEGV (depending on the garbage). The real fix is to only do this reloading if it is needed, and never where it is harmful. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8151/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c +++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ static void build_update_entries(u32 **p struct mips_huge_tlb_info { int huge_pte; int restore_scratch; + bool need_reload_pte; }; static struct mips_huge_tlb_info @@ -1071,6 +1072,7 @@ build_fast_tlb_refill_handler (u32 **p, rv.huge_pte = scratch; rv.restore_scratch = 0; + rv.need_reload_pte = false; if (check_for_high_segbits) { UASM_i_MFC0(p, tmp, C0_BADVADDR); @@ -1259,6 +1261,7 @@ static void build_r4000_tlb_refill_handl } else { htlb_info.huge_pte = K0; htlb_info.restore_scratch = 0; + htlb_info.need_reload_pte = true; vmalloc_mode = refill_noscratch; /* * create the plain linear handler @@ -1295,7 +1298,8 @@ static void build_r4000_tlb_refill_handl } #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_HUGE_TLB_SUPPORT uasm_l_tlb_huge_update(&l, p); - UASM_i_LW(&p, K0, 0, K1); + if (htlb_info.need_reload_pte) + UASM_i_LW(&p, htlb_info.huge_pte, 0, K1); build_huge_update_entries(&p, htlb_info.huge_pte, K1); build_huge_tlb_write_entry(&p, &l, &r, K0, tlb_random, htlb_info.restore_scratch); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/mips-tlbex-properly-fix-huge-tlb-refill-exception-handler.patch -- 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