ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:18:13 +0000 (14:18 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:10:06 +0000 (08:10 -0700)
commit7e49f71b7a6268bb9854b91f6fae3f070fb0222e
tree9b5870553310675b820264f221165d6eb9c7cfa9
parent17c7d1468f968e153d39a94efeedd0a0e2a77c2a
ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches

commit b74253f78400f9a4b42da84bb1de7540b88ce7c4 upstream.

The vivt_flush_cache_{range,page} functions check that the mm_struct
of the VMA being flushed has been active on the current CPU before
performing the cache maintenance.

The gate_vma has a NULL mm_struct pointer and, as such, will cause a
kernel fault if we try to flush it with the above operations. This
happens during ELF core dumps, which include the gate_vma as it may be
useful for debugging purposes.

This patch adds checks to the VIVT cache flushing functions so that VMAs
with a NULL mm_struct are flushed unconditionally (the vectors page may
be dirty if we use it to store the current TLS pointer).

Reported-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Tested-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h