linux-kernel - Re: [stable PATCH 1/2] arm64: Fix mismatched cache line size detection

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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:54:06 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, will.deacon@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        catalin.marinas@....com
Subject: Re: [stable PATCH 1/2] arm64: Fix mismatched cache line size
 detection

Hi Greg,

On 12/09/18 20:38, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:10:09AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> commit 4c4a39dd5fe2d13e2d2fa5fceb8ef95d19fc389a upstream
>>
>> If there is a mismatch in the I/D min line size, we must
>> always use the system wide safe value both in applications
>> and in the kernel, while performing cache operations. However,
>> we have been checking more bits than just the min line sizes,
>> which triggers false negatives. We may need to trap the user
>> accesses in such cases, but not necessarily patch the kernel.
>>
>> This patch fixes the check to do the right thing as advertised.
>> A new capability will be added to check mismatches in other
>> fields and ensure we trap the CTR accesses.
>>
>> Fixes: be68a8aaf925 ("arm64: cpufeature: Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions")
>> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.9
> 
> Why 4.9?  be68a8aaf925 only showed up in 4.16 and was backported only to
> 4.14-stable.  Not to 4.9-stable from what I can tell.

Now when you asked this, I realise that the Fixes tags were not sufficient.

Actually this series fixes a bit more than the commit: be68a8aaf925 ("arm64: cpufeature:
Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions"). I think these patches should have :

Fixes: commit 116c81f427ff6c5 ("arm64: Work around systems with mismatched cache line sizes")

and

Enable trapping on mismatched bits in CTR for IDC/DIC, which were
added to v8.3 onwards.

Essentially these patches makes sure that we trap accesses to
CTR_EL0 when some of the fields are mismatched across CPUs, so
that the CPUs get a consistent view of the cache properties
throughout the system. It also makes sure that we put out
correct information about why we trap accesses to the CTR_EL0
accesses from the userspace.

Hope this helps. The same applies for the next patch.

Suzuki