This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/64s: Initialize ISAv3 MMU registers before setting partition table
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: powerpc-64s-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 371b80447ff33ddac392c189cf884a5a3e18faeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:21:14 +1000 Subject: powerpc/64s: Initialize ISAv3 MMU registers before setting partition table
From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com
commit 371b80447ff33ddac392c189cf884a5a3e18faeb upstream.
kexec can leave MMU registers set when booting into a new kernel, the PIDR (Process Identification Register) in particular. The boot sequence does not zero PIDR, so it only gets set when CPUs first switch to a userspace processes (until then it's running a kernel thread with effective PID = 0).
This leaves a window where a process table entry and page tables are set up due to user processes running on other CPUs, that happen to match with a stale PID. The CPU with that PID may cause speculative accesses that address quadrant 0 (aka userspace addresses), which will result in cached translations and PWC (Page Walk Cache) for that process, on a CPU which is not in the mm_cpumask and so they will not be invalidated properly.
The most common result is the kernel hanging in infinite page fault loops soon after kexec (usually in schedule_tail, which is usually the first non-speculative quadrant 0 access to a new PID) due to a stale PWC. However being a stale translation error, it could result in anything up to security and data corruption problems.
Fix this by zeroing out PIDR at boot and kexec.
Fixes: 7e381c0ff618 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add mmu context handling callback for radix") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ _GLOBAL(__setup_cpu_power9) li r0,0 mtspr SPRN_PSSCR,r0 mtspr SPRN_LPID,r0 + mtspr SPRN_PID,r0 mfspr r3,SPRN_LPCR LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, LPCR_PECEDH | LPCR_PECE_HVEE | LPCR_HVICE | LPCR_HEIC) or r3, r3, r4 @@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ _GLOBAL(__restore_cpu_power9) li r0,0 mtspr SPRN_PSSCR,r0 mtspr SPRN_LPID,r0 + mtspr SPRN_PID,r0 mfspr r3,SPRN_LPCR LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, LPCR_PECEDH | LPCR_PECE_HVEE | LPCR_HVICE | LPCR_HEIC) or r3, r3, r4
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@gmail.com are
queue-4.14/powerpc-64s-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch