powerpc/603: Fix handling of the DIRTY flag
authorChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:40:25 +0000 (06:40 +0000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:22:21 +0000 (21:22 +1000)
If a page is already mapped RW without the DIRTY flag, the DIRTY
flag is never set and a TLB store miss exception is taken forever.

This is easily reproduced with the following app:

void main(void)
{
volatile char *ptr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

*ptr = *ptr;
}

When DIRTY flag is not set, bail out of TLB miss handler and take
a minor page fault which will set the DIRTY flag.

Fixes: f8b58c64eaef ("powerpc/603: let's handle PAGE_DIRTY directly")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.1+
Reported-by: Doug Crawford <doug.crawford@intelight-its.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/80432f71194d7ee75b2f5043ecf1501cf1cca1f3.1566196646.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S

index c8b4f7e..9e6f01a 100644 (file)
@@ -557,9 +557,9 @@ DataStoreTLBMiss:
        cmplw   0,r1,r3
        mfspr   r2, SPRN_SPRG_PGDIR
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
-       li      r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+       li      r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
 #else
-       li      r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_PRESENT
+       li      r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT
 #endif
        bge-    112f
        lis     r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha   /* if kernel address, use */