[PATCH RESEND] riscv: asid: Fixup stale TLB entry cause application crash

Conor Dooley conor.dooley at microchip.com
Tue Nov 8 06:22:45 PST 2022


On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 10:27:51AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8 November 2022 10:20:44 GMT, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
> >From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> >
> >After use_asid_allocator enabled, the userspace application will
> >crash for stale tlb entry. Because only using cpumask_clear_cpu without
> >local_flush_tlb_all couldn't guarantee CPU's tlb entries fresh. Then
> >set_mm_asid would cause user space application get a stale value by
> >the stale tlb entry, but set_mm_noasid is okay.
> >
> >Here is the symptom of the bug:
> >unhandled signal 11 code 0x1 (coredump)
> >   0x0000003fd6d22524 <+4>:     auipc   s0,0x70
> >   0x0000003fd6d22528 <+8>:     ld      s0,-148(s0) # 0x3fd6d92490
> >=> 0x0000003fd6d2252c <+12>:    ld      a5,0(s0)
> >(gdb) i r s0
> >s0          0x8082ed1cc3198b21       0x8082ed1cc3198b21
> >(gdb) x/16 0x3fd6d92490
> >0x3fd6d92490:   0xd80ac8a8      0x0000003f
> >The core dump file shows that the value of register s0 is wrong, but the
> >value in memory is right. This is because 'ld s0, -148(s0)' use a stale
> >mapping entry in TLB and got a wrong value from a stale physical
> >address.
> >
> >When task run on CPU0, the task loaded/speculative-loaded the value of
> >address(0x3fd6d92490), and the first version of tlb mapping entry was
> >PTWed into CPU0's tlb.
> >When the task switched from CPU0 to CPU1 without local_tlb_flush_all
> >(because of asid), the task happened to write a value on address
> >(0x3fd6d92490). It caused do_page_fault -> wp_page_copy ->
> >ptep_clear_flush -> ptep_get_and_clear & flush_tlb_page.
> >The flush_tlb_page used mm_cpumask(mm) to determine which CPUs need
> >tlb flush, but CPU0 had cleared the CPU0's mm_cpumask in previous switch_mm.
> >So we only flushed the CPU1 tlb, and setted second version mapping
> >of the pte. When the task switch from CPU1 to CPU0 again, CPU0 still used a
> >stale tlb mapping entry which contained a wrong target physical address.
> >When the task happened to read that value, the bug would be raised.
> >
> >Fixes: 65d4b9c53017 ("RISC-V: Implement ASID allocator")
> >Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org>
> >Cc: Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com>
> >Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
> >---
> > arch/riscv/mm/context.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/context.c b/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> >index 7acbfbd14557..8ad6c2493e93 100644
> >--- a/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> >+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> >@@ -317,7 +317,9 @@ void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
> > 	 */
> > 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > 
> >-	cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
> >+	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&use_asid_allocator))
> >+		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
> >+
> > 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
> > 
> > 	set_mm(next, cpu);
> 
> This is a completely different patch to what you already sent.
> Why have you marked it RESEND rather than v2?

In addition, it seems to break the build for the nommu defconfigs.



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