linux/arch
Will Deacon 834020366d ARM: 8898/1: mm: Don't treat faults reported from cache maintenance as writes
Translation faults arising from cache maintenance instructions are
rather unhelpfully reported with an FSR value where the WnR field is set
to 1, indicating that the faulting access was a write. Since cache
maintenance instructions on 32-bit ARM do not require any particular
permissions, this can cause our private 'cacheflush' system call to fail
spuriously if a translation fault is generated due to page aging when
targetting a read-only VMA.

In this situation, we will return -EFAULT to userspace, although this is
unfortunately suppressed by the popular '__builtin___clear_cache()'
intrinsic provided by GCC, which returns void.

Although it's tempting to write this off as a userspace issue, we can
actually do a little bit better on CPUs that support LPAE, even if the
short-descriptor format is in use. On these CPUs, cache maintenance
faults additionally set the CM field in the FSR, which we can use to
suppress the write permission checks in the page fault handler and
succeed in performing cache maintenance to read-only areas even in the
presence of a translation fault.

Reported-by: Orion Hodson <oth@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
2019-08-23 11:39:34 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-07-17 08:58:04 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-07-17 08:58:04 -07:00
arm ARM: 8898/1: mm: Don't treat faults reported from cache maintenance as writes 2019-08-23 11:39:34 +01:00
arm64 arm64 fixes: 2019-08-16 10:51:47 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2019-07-10 21:42:03 -07:00
csky treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
h8300 h8300 update for 5.3 2019-07-17 09:36:38 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: switch to generic version of pte allocation 2019-07-21 09:53:00 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
m68k arch: mark syscall number 435 reserved for clone3 2019-07-15 00:39:33 +02:00
microblaze clone3-v5.3 2019-07-11 10:09:44 -07:00
mips Bugfixes (arm and x86) and cleanups. 2019-08-09 15:46:29 -07:00
nds32 treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
nios2 nios2 update for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 15:38:05 -07:00
openrisc dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.3 2019-07-12 15:13:55 -07:00
parisc Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to just -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang 2019-08-10 12:45:37 -07:00
powerpc dma-mapping fixes for 5.3-rc 2019-08-14 10:31:11 -07:00
riscv riscv: Make __fstate_clean() work correctly. 2019-08-14 13:20:46 -07:00
s390 Bugfixes (arm and x86) and cleanups. 2019-08-09 15:46:29 -07:00
sh sh: kernel: hw_breakpoint: Fix missing break in switch statement 2019-08-11 16:15:16 -05:00
sparc treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
um This pull request contains the following changes for UML: 2019-07-14 17:17:34 -07:00
unicore32 Kconfig updates for v5.3 2019-07-12 16:06:27 -07:00
x86 x86/boot: Save fields explicitly, zero out everything else 2019-08-16 14:20:00 +02:00
xtensa xtensa: add missing isync to the cpu_reset TLB code 2019-08-12 15:05:48 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-20 10:33:44 -07:00