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| author |   Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2012-07-23 14:18:13 +0100 |
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| committer |   Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2012-07-31 12:04:47 +0100 |
| commit | b74253f78400f9a4b42da84bb1de7540b88ce7c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 27a91700b0dafa9119ed774ad29f481152491ead /arch | |
| parent | ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling (diff) | |
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ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches
The vivt_flush_cache_{range,page} functions check that the mm_struct
of the VMA being flushed has been active on the current CPU before
performing the cache maintenance.
The gate_vma has a NULL mm_struct pointer and, as such, will cause a
kernel fault if we try to flush it with the above operations. This
happens during ELF core dumps, which include the gate_vma as it may be
useful for debugging purposes.
This patch adds checks to the VIVT cache flushing functions so that VMAs
with a NULL mm_struct are flushed unconditionally (the vectors page may
be dirty if we use it to store the current TLS pointer).
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Reported-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Tested-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h index 004c1bc95d2b..e4448e16046d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ static inline void vivt_flush_cache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) static inline void vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm))) + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + + if (!mm || cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm))) __cpuc_flush_user_range(start & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end), vma->vm_flags); } @@ -223,7 +225,9 @@ vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned static inline void vivt_flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr, unsigned long pfn) { - if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm))) { + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + + if (!mm || cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm))) { unsigned long addr = user_addr & PAGE_MASK; __cpuc_flush_user_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_flags); } |