[PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix the break-before-make flush range for erratum 2645198

Andrea Parri parri.andrea at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 07:36:32 PDT 2026


modify_prot_start_ptes() performs the break-before-make TLB invalidation
required by erratum 2645198 with __flush_tlb_range(), whose third
argument is the end address of the range.  It passes nr * PAGE_SIZE
instead of addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE, so __do_flush_tlb_range() computes the
page count as (nr * PAGE_SIZE - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT.

For addr > nr * PAGE_SIZE that subtraction underflows, the page count
exceeds the batching limit and the flush degenerates to flush_tlb_mm(),
so a single-page mprotect broadcasts an ASID-wide invalidation and a
full-range mmu notifier call.

For addr <= nr * PAGE_SIZE only [addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE) is invalidated,
and when the cleared batch starts below nr * PAGE_SIZE the tail is left
in the TLB.  The workaround then no longer covers the whole batch, and
for addr == nr * PAGE_SIZE the flush is empty.

On affected Cortex-A715 CPUs, this can corrupt ESR_ELx and FAR_ELx on the
next instruction abort caused by a permission fault.

Pass addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE as the end address.

Fixes: 7efa1cd5f89b5 ("arm64: add batched versions of ptep_modify_prot_start/commit")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea at gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 79d90226fd5dc..d4384131e10d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ pte_t modify_prot_start_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
 		 */
 		if (pte_accessible(vma->vm_mm, pte) && pte_user_exec(pte))
-			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE,
+			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE,
 					  PAGE_SIZE, 3, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0




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