[PATCH] arm64: suspend: avoid potential TLB conflict

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Aug 11 04:01:43 PDT 2016


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:39:50AM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> On 09/08/16 18:51, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 05:25:37PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> >> fe12c00d21bb ("PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation") came
> >> in with the merge window, this does a suspend followed by a resume with the user
> >> page tables still loaded in ttbr0_el1.
> > 
> > Hmmm... given that, it looks like if we bail out in swsusp_arch_resume()
> > after the call to create_safe_exec_page(), we may return to userspace
> > with a corrupted TTBR0.
> 
> Ah, didn't spot that.
> 
> > We probably need to defer the call to create_safe_exec_page() after the
> > other potential failure sites so as to avoid that.
> > 
> > Looking around it's not clear to me how/where the get_safe_page()
> > allocations are cleaned up when a failure occurs.
> 
> Its dealt with by the core code: they get added to to one of
> kernel/power/snapshot.c's plethora of bitmaps, and freed via
> free_basic_memory_bitmaps() -> memory_bm_free() -> free_list_of_pages() ->
> free_image_page().
> 
> It looks like pages allocated by get_safe_page() are on the 'forbidden_pages_map'.

Thanks for the pointer!

Given that, it looks like a simple reshuffling of swsusp_arch_resume is
all that's necessary. I'll spin that along with v2 of this patch.

Thanks,
Mark.



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