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authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>2015-11-10 15:11:20 +0100
committerChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>2015-11-24 17:58:00 +0100
commite6fab54423450d699a09ec2b899473a541f61971 (patch)
tree522c1b5faabf55645f9be365b886917e9fde5ca5 /arch/arm64
parent1ec218373b8ebda821aec00bb156a9c94fad9cd4 (diff)
ARM/arm64: KVM: test properly for a PTE's uncachedness
The open coded tests for checking whether a PTE maps a page as uncached use a flawed '(pte_val(xxx) & CONST) != CONST' pattern, which is not guaranteed to work since the type of a mapping is not a set of mutually exclusive bits For HYP mappings, the type is an index into the MAIR table (i.e, the index itself does not contain any information whatsoever about the type of the mapping), and for stage-2 mappings it is a bit field where normal memory and device types are defined as follows: #define MT_S2_NORMAL 0xf #define MT_S2_DEVICE_nGnRE 0x1 I.e., masking *and* comparing with the latter matches on the former, and we have been getting lucky merely because the S2 device mappings also have the PTE_UXN bit set, or we would misidentify memory mappings as device mappings. Since the unmap_range() code path (which contains one instance of the flawed test) is used both for HYP mappings and stage-2 mappings, and considering the difference between the two, it is non-trivial to fix this by rewriting the tests in place, as it would involve passing down the type of mapping through all the functions. However, since HYP mappings and stage-2 mappings both deal with host physical addresses, we can simply check whether the mapping is backed by memory that is managed by the host kernel, and only perform the D-cache maintenance if this is the case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Tested-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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