[PATCH] RFC: ARM: fix the uaccess crash on PB11MPCore

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Jul 11 10:08:13 PDT 2016


The following patch was sketched by Russell in response to my
crashes on the PB11MPCore after the patch for software-based
priviledged no access support for ARMv8.1. See this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=144051749807214&w=2

I am unsure what is going on, I suspect everyone involved in
the discussion is. I just want to repost this to get the
discussion restarted, as I still have to apply this patch
with every kernel iteration to get my PB11MPCore Realview
running.

I also know that Oxnas has actual, mass-deployed NAS (PogoPlug
Pro variants) using PB11MPCore, and that they may or may not
be seeing the same issue so I want their feedback on this: do
you or do you not see this with mainline, or have you not even
tested?

Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
Fixes: a5e090acbf54 ("ARM: software-based priviledged-no-access support")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c
index 2e72be4f623e..7cb079e74010 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_tlb.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  */
 #include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -40,8 +41,11 @@ static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_mm(void *arg)
 static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_page(void *arg)
 {
 	struct tlb_args *ta = (struct tlb_args *)arg;
+	unsigned int __ua_flags = uaccess_save_and_enable();
 
 	local_flush_tlb_page(ta->ta_vma, ta->ta_start);
+
+	uaccess_restore(__ua_flags);
 }
 
 static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_kernel_page(void *arg)
@@ -54,8 +58,11 @@ static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_kernel_page(void *arg)
 static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_range(void *arg)
 {
 	struct tlb_args *ta = (struct tlb_args *)arg;
+	unsigned int __ua_flags = uaccess_save_and_enable();
 
 	local_flush_tlb_range(ta->ta_vma, ta->ta_start, ta->ta_end);
+
+	uaccess_restore(__ua_flags);
 }
 
 static inline void ipi_flush_tlb_kernel_range(void *arg)
-- 
2.7.4




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