Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr

From: Kani, Toshi
Date: Wed Jun 27 2018 - 12:13:50 EST


On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 16:56 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Toshi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:13:47AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > From: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The following kernel panic was observed on ARM64 platform due to a stale
> > TLB entry.
> >
> > 1. ioremap with 4K size, a valid pte page table is set.
> > 2. iounmap it, its pte entry is set to 0.
> > 3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, update its pmd entry with
> > a new value.
> > 4. CPU may hit an exception because the old pmd entry is still in TLB,
> > which leads to a kernel panic.
> >
> > Commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page
> > table") has addressed this panic by falling to pte mappings in the above
> > case on ARM64.
> >
> > To support pmd mappings in all cases, TLB purge needs to be performed
> > in this case on ARM64.
> >
> > Add a new arg, 'addr', to pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page()
> > so that TLB purge can be added later in seprate patches.
>
> So I acked v13 of Chintan's series posted here:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-June/582953.html
>
> any chance this lot could all be merged together, please?

Hi Will,

Chintan's patch 2/3 and 3/3 apply cleanly on top of my series. Can you
please coordinate with Thomas on the logistics?

Thanks,
-Toshi