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| author |   David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-07-07 10:44:10 +0200 |
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| committer |   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2016-07-13 10:58:01 +0200 |
| commit | f045402984404ddc11016358411e445192919047 (patch) | |
| tree | e31c13d4d50f6e205061570f25ffa790dd29427d /arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h | |
| parent | s390/mm: add support for 2GB hugepages (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-f045402984404ddc11016358411e445192919047.tar.xz linux-dev-f045402984404ddc11016358411e445192919047.zip | |
s390/mm: fix gmap tlb flush issues
__tlb_flush_asce() should never be used if multiple asce belong to a mm.
As this function changes mm logic determining if local or global tlb
flushes will be neded, we might end up flushing only the gmap asce on all
CPUs and a follow up mm asce flushes will only flush on the local CPU,
although that asce ran on multiple CPUs.
The missing tlb flushes will provoke strange faults in user space and even
low address protections in user space, crashing the kernel.
Fixes: 1b948d6caec4 ("s390/mm,tlb: optimize TLB flushing for zEC12")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.15+
Reported-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h index e72cea7a4bfe..1a691ef740cf 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static inline void __tlb_flush_full(struct mm_struct *mm) } /* - * Flush TLB entries for a specific ASCE on all CPUs. + * Flush TLB entries for a specific ASCE on all CPUs. Should never be used + * when more than one asce (e.g. gmap) ran on this mm. */ static inline void __tlb_flush_asce(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long asce) { |