[PATCH] arm64: avoid TLB conflict with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Aug 24 10:02:08 PDT 2016


When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is selected, we modify the page tables to remap the
kernel at a newly-chosen VA range. We do this with the MMU disabled, but do not
invalidate TLBs prior to re-enabling the MMU with the new tables. Thus the old
mappings entries may still live in TLBs, and we risk violating
Break-Before-Make requirements, leading to TLB conflicts and/or other issues.

We invalidate TLBs when we uninsall the idmap in early setup code, but prior to
this we are subject to issues relating to the Break-Before-Make violation.

Avoid these issues by invalidating the TLBs before the new mappings can be
used by the hardware.

Fixes: f80fb3a3d50843a4 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index b77f583..3e7b050 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ ENTRY(__enable_mmu)
 	isb
 	bl	__create_page_tables		// recreate kernel mapping
 
+	tlbi	vmalle1				// Remove any stale TLB entries
+	dsb	nsh
+
 	msr	sctlr_el1, x19			// re-enable the MMU
 	isb
 	ic	iallu				// flush instructions fetched
-- 
2.7.4




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