[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc/mm: Recompute hash value after a failed update" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Oct 6 13:18:00 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc/mm: Recompute hash value after a failed update

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From fc3d4392941320680b01e2c38e1da3ce7bd1aa40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:30:08 +0530
Subject: powerpc/mm: Recompute hash value after a failed update

commit 36b35d5d807b7e57aff7d08e63de8b17731ee211 upstream.

If we had secondary hash flag set, we ended up modifying hash value in
the updatepp code path. Hence with a failed updatepp we will be using
a wrong hash value for the following hash insert. Fix this by
recomputing hash before insert.

Without this patch we can end up with using wrong slot number in linux
pte. That can result in us missing an hash pte update or invalidate
which can cause memory corruption or even machine check.

Fixes: 6d492ecc6489 ("powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
index 5f5e6328c21c..5061c6f676da 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid,
 	BUG_ON(index >= 4096);

 	vpn = hpt_vpn(ea, vsid, ssize);
-	hash = hpt_hash(vpn, shift, ssize);
 	hpte_slot_array = get_hpte_slot_array(pmdp);
 	if (psize == MMU_PAGE_4K) {
 		/*
@@ -151,6 +150,7 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid,
 	valid = hpte_valid(hpte_slot_array, index);
 	if (valid) {
 		/* update the hpte bits */
+		hash = hpt_hash(vpn, shift, ssize);
 		hidx =  hpte_hash_index(hpte_slot_array, index);
 		if (hidx & _PTEIDX_SECONDARY)
 			hash = ~hash;
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid,
 	if (!valid) {
 		unsigned long hpte_group;

+		hash = hpt_hash(vpn, shift, ssize);
 		/* insert new entry */
 		pa = pmd_pfn(__pmd(old_pmd)) << PAGE_SHIFT;
 		new_pmd |= _PAGE_HASHPTE;




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