[PATCH 2/2] arm64: SW PAN: Update saved ttbr0 value on enter_lazy_tlb

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Dec 6 03:16:08 PST 2017


enter_lazy_tlb is called when a kernel thread rides on the back of
another mm, due to a context switch or an explicit call to unuse_mm
where a call to switch_mm is elided.

In these cases, it's important to keep the saved ttbr value up to date
with the active mm, otherwise we can end up with a stale value which
points to a potentially freed page table.

This patch implements enter_lazy_tlb for arm64, so that the saved ttbr0
is kept up-to-date with the active mm for kernel threads.

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon at codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 24 ++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index f7773f90546e..9d155fa9a507 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -156,20 +156,6 @@ void check_and_switch_context(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int cpu);
 
 #define init_new_context(tsk,mm)	({ atomic64_set(&(mm)->context.id, 0); 0; })
 
-/*
- * This is called when "tsk" is about to enter lazy TLB mode.
- *
- * mm:  describes the currently active mm context
- * tsk: task which is entering lazy tlb
- * cpu: cpu number which is entering lazy tlb
- *
- * tsk->mm will be NULL
- */
-static inline void
-enter_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
 static inline void update_saved_ttbr0(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				      struct mm_struct *mm)
@@ -193,6 +179,16 @@ static inline void update_saved_ttbr0(struct task_struct *tsk,
 }
 #endif
 
+static inline void
+enter_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	/*
+	 * We don't actually care about the ttbr0 mapping, so point it at the
+	 * zero page.
+	 */
+	update_saved_ttbr0(tsk, &init_mm);
+}
+
 static inline void __switch_mm(struct mm_struct *next)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-- 
2.1.4




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