linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v7 07/16] arm64/mm, xpfo: temporarily map dcache regions

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Message-ID: <20190111145445.GA4102@cisco>
Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:54:45 -0700
From:   Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To:     Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
Cc:     juergh@...il.com, jsteckli@...zon.de, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, liran.alon@...cle.com,
        keescook@...gle.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>,
        deepa.srinivasan@...cle.com, chris.hyser@...cle.com,
        tyhicks@...onical.com, dwmw@...zon.co.uk,
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        pradeep.vincent@...cle.com, john.haxby@...cle.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, hch@....de,
        steven.sistare@...cle.com, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
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        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 07/16] arm64/mm, xpfo: temporarily map dcache
 regions

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:09:39PM -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> From: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>
> 
> If the page is unmapped by XPFO, a data cache flush results in a fatal
> page fault, so let's temporarily map the region, flush the cache, and then
> unmap it.
> 
> v6: actually flush in the face of xpfo, and temporarily map the underlying
>     memory so it can be flushed correctly
> 
> CC: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>
> Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> index 30695a868107..f12f26b60319 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>  #include <linux/export.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/pagemap.h>
> +#include <linux/xpfo.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/cache.h>
> @@ -28,9 +29,15 @@
>  void sync_icache_aliases(void *kaddr, unsigned long len)
>  {
>  	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)kaddr;
> +	unsigned long num_pages = XPFO_NUM_PAGES(addr, len);
> +	void *mapping[num_pages];

Does this still compile with -Wvla? It was a bad hack on my part, and
we should probably just drop it and come up with something else :)

Tycho

>  	if (icache_is_aliasing()) {
> +		xpfo_temp_map(kaddr, len, mapping,
> +			      sizeof(mapping[0]) * num_pages);
>  		__clean_dcache_area_pou(kaddr, len);
> +		xpfo_temp_unmap(kaddr, len, mapping,
> +			        sizeof(mapping[0]) * num_pages);
>  		__flush_icache_all();
>  	} else {
>  		flush_icache_range(addr, addr + len);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>