Patch "ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block" has been added to the 3.17-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block

to the 3.17-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:
     arm-8226-1-cacheflush-get-rid-of-restarting-block.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:39:04 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block

From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>

commit 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 upstream.

We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h |   11 -----------
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c            |   31 ++-----------------------------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ struct cpu_context_save {
 	__u32	extra[2];		/* Xscale 'acc' register, etc */
 };
 
-struct arm_restart_block {
-	union {
-		/* For user cache flushing */
-		struct {
-			unsigned long start;
-			unsigned long end;
-		} cache;
-	};
-};
-
 /*
  * low level task data that entry.S needs immediate access to.
  * __switch_to() assumes cpu_context follows immediately after cpu_domain.
@@ -79,7 +69,6 @@ struct thread_info {
 	unsigned long		thumbee_state;	/* ThumbEE Handler Base register */
 #endif
 	struct restart_block	restart_block;
-	struct arm_restart_block	arm_restart_block;
 };
 
 #define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk)						\
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -513,8 +513,6 @@ static int bad_syscall(int n, struct pt_
 	return regs->ARM_r0;
 }
 
-static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *);
-
 static inline int
 __do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
@@ -523,24 +521,8 @@ __do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsig
 	do {
 		unsigned long chunk = min(PAGE_SIZE, end - start);
 
-		if (signal_pending(current)) {
-			struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
-
-			ti->restart_block = (struct restart_block) {
-				.fn	= do_cache_op_restart,
-			};
-
-			ti->arm_restart_block = (struct arm_restart_block) {
-				{
-					.cache = {
-						.start	= start,
-						.end	= end,
-					},
-				},
-			};
-
-			return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
-		}
+		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+			return 0;
 
 		ret = flush_cache_user_range(start, start + chunk);
 		if (ret)
@@ -553,15 +535,6 @@ __do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsig
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *unused)
-{
-	struct arm_restart_block *restart_block;
-
-	restart_block = &current_thread_info()->arm_restart_block;
-	return __do_cache_op(restart_block->cache.start,
-			     restart_block->cache.end);
-}
-
 static inline int
 do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
 {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx are

queue-3.17/arm-8226-1-cacheflush-get-rid-of-restarting-block.patch
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