linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 001/158] arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes

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Date:	Sun,  4 May 2014 11:38:30 -0400
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@....com>,
	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@...escale.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 001/158] arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

commit 71fdb6bf61bf0692f004f9daf5650392c0cfe300 upstream.

Special pte mappings are not intended to be executable and do not even
have an associated struct page. This patch ensures that we do not call
__sync_icache_dcache() on such ptes.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Reported-by: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@....com>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>
Tested-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@...escale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_
 			      pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 {
 	if (pte_valid_user(pte)) {
-		if (pte_exec(pte))
+		if (!pte_special(pte) && pte_exec(pte))
 			__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
 		if (pte_dirty(pte) && pte_write(pte))
 			pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;


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