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mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()
authorAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:46:33 +0000 (18:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:52:39 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
commit22178c6e6c2dc270ef2ff7169620f372fe691edf
tree14b3c4c1b2706fad59818c298f4cac422a22bcd0
parent0677bed47996e490ec2991999b8b31f73b30a6fe
mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()

commit a50420c79731fc5cf27ad43719c1091e842a2606 upstream.

flush_cache_vmap() must be called after new vmalloc mappings are installed
in the page table in order to allow architectures to make sure the new
mapping is visible.

It could lead to a panic since on some architectures (like powerpc),
the page table walker could see the wrong pte value and trigger a
spurious page fault that can not be resolved (see commit f1cb8f9beba8
("powerpc/64s/radix: avoid ptesync after set_pte and
ptep_set_access_flags")).

But actually the patch is aiming at riscv: the riscv specification
allows the caching of invalid entries in the TLB, and since we recently
removed the vmalloc page fault handling, we now need to emit a tlb
shootdown whenever a new vmalloc mapping is emitted
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230725132246.817726-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/).
That's a temporary solution, there are ways to avoid that :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809164633.1556126-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function")
Reported-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZMytNY2J8iyjbPPy@atctrx.andestech.com/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c