[PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clean decompressed kernel from cache twice on v7

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Thu Feb 4 08:02:09 EST 2021


Commit 5a29552af92dbd62 ("ARM: 9052/1: decompressor: cover BSS in cache
clean and reorder with MMU disable on v7") moved cleaning of the kernel
image to after the point where the MMU and caches are disabled, which is
more in line with the architectural requirements. Unfortunately, doing
so caused a regression on Clang builds, crashing before any diagnostic
output is printed.

Given that the full cleaning the cache afterwards is required in any
case, let's reinstate the original cache clean of just the decompressed
image occurring beforehand, amounting to a partial revert of the commit
in question. Doing so has been confirmed by the reporter of the
regression to mitigate it.

Fixes: 5a29552af92dbd62 ("ARM: 9052/1: decompressor: cover BSS in ...")
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot at kernelci.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index 5c97d341de6b..4e49ac64bf49 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -616,14 +616,18 @@ not_relocated:	mov	r0, #0
 		@ operations on the range [R0, R1], making this prior call to
 		@ cache_clean_flush() redundant. In other cases, the clean is
 		@ performed by set/way and R0/R1 are ignored.
+		@ However, not performing the redundant cache clean before
+		@ turning the MMU and caches off has been observed to cause
+		@ regressions, so on v7+ systems, the decompressed kernel image
+		@ is cleaned twice.
 		@
-		mov	r0, #0
-		mov	r1, #0
+		get_inflated_image_size	r6, r2, r3
+		mov	r0, r4			@ start of decompressed kernel
+		add	r1, r0, r6		@ end of decompressed kernel
 		bl	cache_clean_flush
 
-		get_inflated_image_size	r1, r2, r3
 		ldr	r2, =_kernel_bss_size
-		add	r1, r1, r2
+		add	r1, r2, r6
 
 		mov	r0, r4			@ start of decompressed kernel
 		add	r1, r1, r0		@ end of kernel BSS
-- 
2.20.1




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