Revision 38860b2c8bb1b92f61396eb06a63adff916fc31d authored by John David Anglin on 08 November 2021, 21:48:16 UTC, committed by Helge Deller on 13 November 2021, 21:10:56 UTC
For years, there have been random segmentation faults in userspace on
SMP PA-RISC machines.  It occurred to me that this might be a problem in
set_pte_at().  MIPS and some other architectures do cache flushes when
installing PTEs with the present bit set.

Here I have adapted the code in update_mmu_cache() to flush the kernel
mapping when the kernel flush is deferred, or when the kernel mapping
may alias with the user mapping.  This simplifies calls to
update_mmu_cache().

I also changed the barrier in set_pte() from a compiler barrier to a
full memory barrier.  I know this change is not sufficient to fix the
problem.  It might not be needed.

I have had a few days of operation with 5.14.16 to 5.15.1 and haven't
seen any random segmentation faults on rp3440 or c8000 so far.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 5.12+
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Makefile -rw-r--r-- 361 bytes
compat.c -rw-r--r-- 2.2 KB
ipc_sysctl.c -rw-r--r-- 6.3 KB
mq_sysctl.c -rw-r--r-- 2.7 KB
mqueue.c -rw-r--r-- 43.4 KB
msg.c -rw-r--r-- 31.6 KB
msgutil.c -rw-r--r-- 3.6 KB
namespace.c -rw-r--r-- 5.1 KB
sem.c -rw-r--r-- 63.2 KB
shm.c -rw-r--r-- 42.8 KB
syscall.c -rw-r--r-- 5.1 KB
util.c -rw-r--r-- 23.6 KB
util.h -rw-r--r-- 8.9 KB

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