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<title>MIPS: tlbex: Fix build_restore_pagemask KScratch restore</title>
<updated>2019-10-29T08:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T22:38:48+00:00</published>
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commit b42aa3fd5957e4daf4b69129e5ce752a2a53e7d6 upstream.

build_restore_pagemask() will restore the value of register $1/$at when
its restore_scratch argument is non-zero, and aims to do so by filling a
branch delay slot. Commit 0b24cae4d535 ("MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0
-&gt; mfc0 sequence.") added an EHB instruction (Execution Hazard Barrier)
prior to restoring $1 from a KScratch register, in order to resolve a
hazard that can result in stale values of the KScratch register being
observed. In particular, P-class CPUs from MIPS with out of order
execution pipelines such as the P5600 &amp; P6600 are affected.

Unfortunately this EHB instruction was inserted in the branch delay slot
causing the MFC0 instruction which performs the restoration to no longer
execute along with the branch. The result is that the $1 register isn't
actually restored, ie. the TLB refill exception handler clobbers it -
which is exactly the problem the EHB is meant to avoid for the P-class
CPUs.

Similarly build_get_pgd_vmalloc() will restore the value of $1/$at when
its mode argument equals refill_scratch, and suffers from the same
problem.

Fix this by in both cases moving the EHB earlier in the emitted code.
There's no reason it needs to immediately precede the MFC0 - it simply
needs to be between the MTC0 &amp; MFC0.

This bug only affects Cavium Octeon systems which use
build_fast_tlb_refill_handler().

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 0b24cae4d535 ("MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0 -&gt; mfc0 sequence.")
Cc: Dmitry Korotin &lt;dkorotin@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b42aa3fd5957e4daf4b69129e5ce752a2a53e7d6 upstream.

build_restore_pagemask() will restore the value of register $1/$at when
its restore_scratch argument is non-zero, and aims to do so by filling a
branch delay slot. Commit 0b24cae4d535 ("MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0
-&gt; mfc0 sequence.") added an EHB instruction (Execution Hazard Barrier)
prior to restoring $1 from a KScratch register, in order to resolve a
hazard that can result in stale values of the KScratch register being
observed. In particular, P-class CPUs from MIPS with out of order
execution pipelines such as the P5600 &amp; P6600 are affected.

Unfortunately this EHB instruction was inserted in the branch delay slot
causing the MFC0 instruction which performs the restoration to no longer
execute along with the branch. The result is that the $1 register isn't
actually restored, ie. the TLB refill exception handler clobbers it -
which is exactly the problem the EHB is meant to avoid for the P-class
CPUs.

Similarly build_get_pgd_vmalloc() will restore the value of $1/$at when
its mode argument equals refill_scratch, and suffers from the same
problem.

Fix this by in both cases moving the EHB earlier in the emitted code.
There's no reason it needs to immediately precede the MFC0 - it simply
needs to be between the MTC0 &amp; MFC0.

This bug only affects Cavium Octeon systems which use
build_fast_tlb_refill_handler().

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 0b24cae4d535 ("MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0 -&gt; mfc0 sequence.")
Cc: Dmitry Korotin &lt;dkorotin@wavecomp.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: tlbex: Explicitly cast _PAGE_NO_EXEC to a boolean</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T16:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-12T03:31:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c59ae0a1055127dd3828a88e111a0db59b254104 ]

clang warns:

arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: error: use of logical '&amp;&amp;' with constant
operand [-Werror,-Wconstant-logical-operand]
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                         ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: note: use '&amp;' for a bitwise operation
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                         ^~
                         &amp;
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: note: remove constant to silence this
warning
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                        ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

Explicitly cast this value to a boolean so that clang understands we
intend for this to be a non-zero value.

Fixes: 00bf1c691d08 ("MIPS: tlbex: Avoid placing software PTE bits in Entry* PFN fields")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/609
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c59ae0a1055127dd3828a88e111a0db59b254104 ]

clang warns:

arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: error: use of logical '&amp;&amp;' with constant
operand [-Werror,-Wconstant-logical-operand]
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                         ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: note: use '&amp;' for a bitwise operation
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                         ^~
                         &amp;
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:634:19: note: remove constant to silence this
warning
        if (cpu_has_rixi &amp;&amp; _PAGE_NO_EXEC) {
                        ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

Explicitly cast this value to a boolean so that clang understands we
intend for this to be a non-zero value.

Fixes: 00bf1c691d08 ("MIPS: tlbex: Avoid placing software PTE bits in Entry* PFN fields")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/609
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add missing EHB in mtc0 -&gt; mfc0 sequence.</title>
<updated>2019-07-10T07:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Korotin</name>
<email>dkorotin@wavecomp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-24T19:05:27+00:00</published>
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commit 0b24cae4d535045f4c9e177aa228d4e97bad212c upstream.

Add a missing EHB (Execution Hazard Barrier) in mtc0 -&gt; mfc0 sequence.
Without this execution hazard barrier it's possible for the value read
back from the KScratch register to be the value from before the mtc0.

Reproducible on P5600 &amp; P6600.

The hazard is documented in the MIPS Architecture Reference Manual Vol.
III: MIPS32/microMIPS32 Privileged Resource Architecture (MD00088), rev
6.03 table 8.1 which includes:

   Producer | Consumer | Hazard
  ----------|----------|----------------------------
   mtc0     | mfc0     | any coprocessor 0 register

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Korotin &lt;dkorotin@wavecomp.com&gt;
[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Commit message tweaks.
  - Add Fixes tags.
  - Mark for stable back to v3.15 where P5600 support was introduced.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: 3d8bfdd03072 ("MIPS: Use C0_KScratch (if present) to hold PGD pointer.")
Fixes: 829dcc0a956a ("MIPS: Add MIPS P5600 probe support")
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0b24cae4d535045f4c9e177aa228d4e97bad212c upstream.

Add a missing EHB (Execution Hazard Barrier) in mtc0 -&gt; mfc0 sequence.
Without this execution hazard barrier it's possible for the value read
back from the KScratch register to be the value from before the mtc0.

Reproducible on P5600 &amp; P6600.

The hazard is documented in the MIPS Architecture Reference Manual Vol.
III: MIPS32/microMIPS32 Privileged Resource Architecture (MD00088), rev
6.03 table 8.1 which includes:

   Producer | Consumer | Hazard
  ----------|----------|----------------------------
   mtc0     | mfc0     | any coprocessor 0 register

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Korotin &lt;dkorotin@wavecomp.com&gt;
[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Commit message tweaks.
  - Add Fixes tags.
  - Mark for stable back to v3.15 where P5600 support was introduced.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: 3d8bfdd03072 ("MIPS: Use C0_KScratch (if present) to hold PGD pointer.")
Fixes: 829dcc0a956a ("MIPS: Add MIPS P5600 probe support")
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: WARN_ON invalid DMA cache maintenance, not BUG_ON</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T20:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-25T18:46:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d4da0e97baea8768b3d66ccef3967bebd50dfc3b ]

If a driver causes DMA cache maintenance with a zero length then we
currently BUG and kill the kernel. As this is a scenario that we may
well be able to recover from, WARN &amp; return in the condition instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14623/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d4da0e97baea8768b3d66ccef3967bebd50dfc3b ]

If a driver causes DMA cache maintenance with a zero length then we
currently BUG and kill the kernel. As this is a scenario that we may
well be able to recover from, WARN &amp; return in the condition instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14623/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix ioremap() RAM check</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-05T21:37:52+00:00</published>
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commit 523402fa9101090c91d2033b7ebdfdcf65880488 upstream.

We currently attempt to check whether a physical address range provided
to __ioremap() may be in use by the page allocator by examining the
value of PageReserved for each page in the region - lowmem pages not
marked reserved are presumed to be in use by the page allocator, and
requests to ioremap them fail.

The way we check this has been broken since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm:
meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region"), because
memblock will typically not have any knowledge of non-RAM pages and
therefore those pages will not have the PageReserved flag set. Thus when
we attempt to ioremap a region outside of RAM we incorrectly fail
believing that the region is RAM that may be in use.

In most cases ioremap() on MIPS will take a fast-path to use the
unmapped kseg1 or xkphys virtual address spaces and never hit this path,
so the only way to hit it is for a MIPS32 system to attempt to ioremap()
an address range in lowmem with flags other than _CACHE_UNCACHED.
Perhaps the most straightforward way to do this is using
ioremap_uncached_accelerated(), which is how the problem was discovered.

Fix this by making use of walk_system_ram_range() to test the address
range provided to __ioremap() against only RAM pages, rather than all
lowmem pages. This means that if we have a lowmem I/O region, which is
very common for MIPS systems, we're free to ioremap() address ranges
within it. A nice bonus is that the test is no longer limited to lowmem.

The approach here matches the way x86 performed the same test after
commit c81c8a1eeede ("x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages") until
x86 moved towards a slightly more complicated check using walk_mem_res()
for unrelated reasons with commit 0e4c12b45aa8 ("x86/mm, resource: Use
PAGE_KERNEL protection for ioremap of memory pages").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19786/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 523402fa9101090c91d2033b7ebdfdcf65880488 upstream.

We currently attempt to check whether a physical address range provided
to __ioremap() may be in use by the page allocator by examining the
value of PageReserved for each page in the region - lowmem pages not
marked reserved are presumed to be in use by the page allocator, and
requests to ioremap them fail.

The way we check this has been broken since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm:
meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region"), because
memblock will typically not have any knowledge of non-RAM pages and
therefore those pages will not have the PageReserved flag set. Thus when
we attempt to ioremap a region outside of RAM we incorrectly fail
believing that the region is RAM that may be in use.

In most cases ioremap() on MIPS will take a fast-path to use the
unmapped kseg1 or xkphys virtual address spaces and never hit this path,
so the only way to hit it is for a MIPS32 system to attempt to ioremap()
an address range in lowmem with flags other than _CACHE_UNCACHED.
Perhaps the most straightforward way to do this is using
ioremap_uncached_accelerated(), which is how the problem was discovered.

Fix this by making use of walk_system_ram_range() to test the address
range provided to __ioremap() against only RAM pages, rather than all
lowmem pages. This means that if we have a lowmem I/O region, which is
very common for MIPS systems, we're free to ioremap() address ranges
within it. A nice bonus is that the test is no longer limited to lowmem.

The approach here matches the way x86 performed the same test after
commit c81c8a1eeede ("x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages") until
x86 moved towards a slightly more complicated check using walk_mem_res()
for unrelated reasons with commit 0e4c12b45aa8 ("x86/mm, resource: Use
PAGE_KERNEL protection for ioremap of memory pages").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19786/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: c-r4k: Fix data corruption related to cache coherence</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neil@brown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-26T23:28:34+00:00</published>
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commit 55a2aa08b3af519a9693f99cdf7fa6d8b62d9f65 upstream.

When DMA will be performed to a MIPS32 1004K CPS, the L1-cache for the
range needs to be flushed and invalidated first.
The code currently takes one of two approaches.
1/ If the range is less than the size of the dcache, then HIT type
   requests flush/invalidate cache lines for the particular addresses.
   HIT-type requests a globalised by the CPS so this is safe on SMP.

2/ If the range is larger than the size of dcache, then INDEX type
   requests flush/invalidate the whole cache. INDEX type requests affect
   the local cache only. CPS does not propagate them in any way. So this
   invalidation is not safe on SMP CPS systems.

Data corruption due to '2' can quite easily be demonstrated by
repeatedly "echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and then sha1sum a file
that is several times the size of available memory. Dropping caches
means that large contiguous extents (large than dcache) are more likely.

This was not a problem before Linux-4.8 because option 2 was never used
if CONFIG_MIPS_CPS was defined. The commit which removed that apparently
didn't appreciate the full consequence of the change.

We could, in theory, globalize the INDEX based flush by sending an IPI
to other cores. These cache invalidation routines can be called with
interrupts disabled and synchronous IPI require interrupts to be
enabled. Asynchronous IPI may not trigger writeback soon enough. So we
cannot use IPI in practice.

We can already test if IPI would be needed for an INDEX operation with
r4k_op_needs_ipi(R4K_INDEX). If this is true then we mustn't try the
INDEX approach as we cannot use IPI. If this is false (e.g. when there
is only one core and hence one L1 cache) then it is safe to use the
INDEX approach without IPI.

This patch avoids options 2 if r4k_op_needs_ipi(R4K_INDEX), and so
eliminates the corruption.

Fixes: c00ab4896ed5 ("MIPS: Remove cpu_has_safe_index_cacheops")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.8+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19259/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 55a2aa08b3af519a9693f99cdf7fa6d8b62d9f65 upstream.

When DMA will be performed to a MIPS32 1004K CPS, the L1-cache for the
range needs to be flushed and invalidated first.
The code currently takes one of two approaches.
1/ If the range is less than the size of the dcache, then HIT type
   requests flush/invalidate cache lines for the particular addresses.
   HIT-type requests a globalised by the CPS so this is safe on SMP.

2/ If the range is larger than the size of dcache, then INDEX type
   requests flush/invalidate the whole cache. INDEX type requests affect
   the local cache only. CPS does not propagate them in any way. So this
   invalidation is not safe on SMP CPS systems.

Data corruption due to '2' can quite easily be demonstrated by
repeatedly "echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and then sha1sum a file
that is several times the size of available memory. Dropping caches
means that large contiguous extents (large than dcache) are more likely.

This was not a problem before Linux-4.8 because option 2 was never used
if CONFIG_MIPS_CPS was defined. The commit which removed that apparently
didn't appreciate the full consequence of the change.

We could, in theory, globalize the INDEX based flush by sending an IPI
to other cores. These cache invalidation routines can be called with
interrupts disabled and synchronous IPI require interrupts to be
enabled. Asynchronous IPI may not trigger writeback soon enough. So we
cannot use IPI in practice.

We can already test if IPI would be needed for an INDEX operation with
r4k_op_needs_ipi(R4K_INDEX). If this is true then we mustn't try the
INDEX approach as we cannot use IPI. If this is false (e.g. when there
is only one core and hence one L1 cache) then it is safe to use the
INDEX approach without IPI.

This patch avoids options 2 if r4k_op_needs_ipi(R4K_INDEX), and so
eliminates the corruption.

Fixes: c00ab4896ed5 ("MIPS: Remove cpu_has_safe_index_cacheops")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.8+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19259/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>MIPS: mm: fixed mappings: correct initialisation</title>
<updated>2018-04-13T17:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-11T07:00:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 71eb989ab5a110df8bcbb9609bacde73feacbedd ]

fixrange_init operates at PMD-granularity and expects the addresses to
be PMD-size aligned, but currently that might not be the case for
PKMAP_BASE unless it is defined properly, so ensure a correct alignment
is used before passing the address to fixrange_init.

fixed mappings: only align the start address that is passed to
fixrange_init rather than the value before adding the size, as we may
end up with uninitialised upper part of the range.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15948/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 71eb989ab5a110df8bcbb9609bacde73feacbedd ]

fixrange_init operates at PMD-granularity and expects the addresses to
be PMD-size aligned, but currently that might not be the case for
PKMAP_BASE unless it is defined properly, so ensure a correct alignment
is used before passing the address to fixrange_init.

fixed mappings: only align the start address that is passed to
fixrange_init rather than the value before adding the size, as we may
end up with uninitialised upper part of the range.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15948/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: microMIPS: Fix incorrect mask in insn_table_MM</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T14:53:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>garsilva@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-31T05:35:03+00:00</published>
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commit 77238e76b9156d28d86c1e31c00ed2960df0e4de upstream.

It seems that this is a typo error and the proper bit masking is
"RT | RS" instead of "RS | RS".

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Fixes: d6b3314b49e1 ("MIPS: uasm: Add lh uam instruction")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;garsilva@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17551/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
[jhogan@kernel.org: Backported 3.16..4.12]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 77238e76b9156d28d86c1e31c00ed2960df0e4de upstream.

It seems that this is a typo error and the proper bit masking is
"RT | RS" instead of "RS | RS".

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Fixes: d6b3314b49e1 ("MIPS: uasm: Add lh uam instruction")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;garsilva@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17551/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
[jhogan@kernel.org: Backported 3.16..4.12]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T05:11:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T11:03:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: c-r4k: Fix Loongson-3's vcache/scache waysize calculation</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T10:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhc@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-16T13:00:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=be56f92cc0a9868c2eab776250abeba5b5c21d77'/>
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commit 0be032c190abcdcfa948082b6a1e0d461184ba4d upstream.

If scache.waysize is 0, r4k___flush_cache_all() will do nothing and
then cause bugs. BTW, though vcache.waysize isn't being used by now,
we also fix its calculation.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15756/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0be032c190abcdcfa948082b6a1e0d461184ba4d upstream.

If scache.waysize is 0, r4k___flush_cache_all() will do nothing and
then cause bugs. BTW, though vcache.waysize isn't being used by now,
we also fix its calculation.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;john@phrozen.org&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15756/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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