Re: [PATCH] powerpc/603: fix handling of the DIRTY flag

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 06:40:25 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> If a page is already mapped RW without the DIRTY flag, the DIRTY
> flag is never set and a TLB store miss exception is taken forever.
> 
> This is easily reproduced with the following app:
> 
> void main(void)
> {
> 	volatile char *ptr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
> 
> 	*ptr = *ptr;
> }
> 
> When DIRTY flag is not set, bail out of TLB miss handler and take
> a minor page fault which will set the DIRTY flag.
> 
> Fixes: f8b58c64eaef ("powerpc/603: let's handle PAGE_DIRTY directly")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Doug Crawford <doug.crawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/415480dce2ef03bb8335deebd2f402f475443ce0

cheers