From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
To: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/8xx: Fix clearing of bits 20-23 in ITLB miss
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:17:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d6a53ab-ea72-7452-ea5f-43dd70b223c9@c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546ce4737f308a4ba99a53f550de5b44abc06444.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Le 15/02/2020 à 07:28, Leonardo Bras a écrit :
> On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 18:14 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> In ITLB miss handled the line supposed to clear bits 20-23 on the
>> L2 ITLB entry is buggy and does indeed nothing, leading to undefined
>> value which could allow execution when it shouldn't.
>>
>> Properly do the clearing with the relevant instruction.
>>
>> Fixes: 74fabcadfd43 ("powerpc/8xx: don't use r12/SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2 in TLB Miss handlers")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
>> index 9922306ae512..073a651787df 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
>> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
>> * set. All other Linux PTE bits control the behavior
>> * of the MMU.
>> */
>> - rlwimi r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */
>> + rlwinm r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */
>> rlwimi r10, r10, 4, 0x0400 /* Copy _PAGE_EXEC into bit 21 */
>> ori r10, r10, RPN_PATTERN | 0x200 /* Set 22 and 24-27 */
>> mtspr SPRN_MI_RPN, r10 /* Update TLB entry */
>
> Looks a valid change.
> rlwimi r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00 means:
> r10 = ((r10 << 0) & 0x0f00) | (r10 & ~0x0f00) which ends up being
> r10 = r10
>
> On ISA, rlwinm is recommended for clearing high order bits.
> rlwinm r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00 means:
> r10 = (r10 << 0) & ~0x0f00
>
> Which does exactly what the comments suggests.
>
> FWIW:
> Reviwed-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
>
I guess you mean
Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-15 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-09 18:14 [PATCH] powerpc/8xx: Fix clearing of bits 20-23 in ITLB miss Christophe Leroy
2020-02-15 6:28 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-02-15 10:17 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-02-17 14:10 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-02-19 12:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-11 4:28 Leonardo Bras
2020-02-20 21:53 ` Leonardo Bras
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