[PATCH 5.0 057/123] bpf, arm64: remove prefetch insn in xadd mapping

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 08:44:55 EST


From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8968c67a82ab7501bc3b9439c3624a49b42fe54c upstream.

Prefetch-with-intent-to-write is currently part of the XADD mapping in
the AArch64 JIT and follows the kernel's implementation of atomic_add.
This may interfere with other threads executing the LDXR/STXR loop,
leading to potential starvation and fairness issues. Drop the optional
prefetch instruction.

Fixes: 85f68fe89832 ("bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD")
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit.h | 6 ------
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit.h
@@ -100,12 +100,6 @@
#define A64_STXR(sf, Rt, Rn, Rs) \
A64_LSX(sf, Rt, Rn, Rs, STORE_EX)

-/* Prefetch */
-#define A64_PRFM(Rn, type, target, policy) \
- aarch64_insn_gen_prefetch(Rn, AARCH64_INSN_PRFM_TYPE_##type, \
- AARCH64_INSN_PRFM_TARGET_##target, \
- AARCH64_INSN_PRFM_POLICY_##policy)
-
/* Add/subtract (immediate) */
#define A64_ADDSUB_IMM(sf, Rd, Rn, imm12, type) \
aarch64_insn_gen_add_sub_imm(Rd, Rn, imm12, \
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -739,7 +739,6 @@ emit_cond_jmp:
case BPF_STX | BPF_XADD | BPF_DW:
emit_a64_mov_i(1, tmp, off, ctx);
emit(A64_ADD(1, tmp, tmp, dst), ctx);
- emit(A64_PRFM(tmp, PST, L1, STRM), ctx);
emit(A64_LDXR(isdw, tmp2, tmp), ctx);
emit(A64_ADD(isdw, tmp2, tmp2, src), ctx);
emit(A64_STXR(isdw, tmp2, tmp, tmp3), ctx);