Re: [PATCH] powerpc/8xx: Fix clearing of bits 20-23 in ITLB miss

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Sat Feb 15 2020 - 05:17:36 EST




Le 15/02/2020 Ã 07:28, Leonardo Bras a ÃcritÂ:
On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 18:14 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
In ITLB miss handled the line supposed to clear bits 20-23 on the
L2 ITLB entry is buggy and does indeed nothing, leading to undefined
value which could allow execution when it shouldn't.

Properly do the clearing with the relevant instruction.

Fixes: 74fabcadfd43 ("powerpc/8xx: don't use r12/SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2 in TLB Miss handlers")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 9922306ae512..073a651787df 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
* set. All other Linux PTE bits control the behavior
* of the MMU.
*/
- rlwimi r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */
+ rlwinm r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */
rlwimi r10, r10, 4, 0x0400 /* Copy _PAGE_EXEC into bit 21 */
ori r10, r10, RPN_PATTERN | 0x200 /* Set 22 and 24-27 */
mtspr SPRN_MI_RPN, r10 /* Update TLB entry */

Looks a valid change.
rlwimi r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00 means:
r10 = ((r10 << 0) & 0x0f00) | (r10 & ~0x0f00) which ends up being
r10 = r10

On ISA, rlwinm is recommended for clearing high order bits.
rlwinm r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00 means:
r10 = (r10 << 0) & ~0x0f00

Which does exactly what the comments suggests.

FWIW:
Reviwed-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I guess you mean

Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>