linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: migrate: add missing flush_dcache

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Date:   Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:40:30 +0100
From:   Lars Persson <lars.persson@...s.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Lars Persson <larper@...s.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: migrate: add missing flush_dcache_page for non-mapped
 page migrate


On 2/25/19 4:07 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 2/19/19 1:32 PM, Lars Persson wrote:
>> Our MIPS 1004Kc SoCs were seeing random userspace crashes with SIGILL
>> and SIGSEGV that could not be traced back to a userspace code
>> bug. They had all the magic signs of an I/D cache coherency issue.
>>
>> Now recently we noticed that the /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory interface
>> was quite efficient at provoking this class of userspace crashes.
>>
>> Studying the code in mm/migrate.c there is a distinction made between
>> migrating a page that is mapped at the instant of migration and one
>> that is not mapped. Our problem turned out to be the non-mapped pages.
>>
>> For the non-mapped page the code performs a copy of the page content
>> and all relevant meta-data of the page without doing the required
>> D-cache maintenance. This leaves dirty data in the D-cache of the CPU
>> and on the 1004K cores this data is not visible to the I-cache. A
>> subsequent page-fault that triggers a mapping of the page will happily
>> serve the process with potentially stale code.
>>
>> What about ARM then, this bug should have seen greater exposure? Well
>> ARM became immune to this flaw back in 2010, see commit c01778001a4f
>> ("ARM: 6379/1: Assume new page cache pages have dirty D-cache").
>>
>> My proposed fix moves the D-cache maintenance inside move_to_new_page
>> to make it common for both cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lars Persson <larper@...s.com>
> 
> What about CC stable and a Fixes tag, would it be applicable here?
> 

Yes this is candidate for stable so let's add:
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>

I do not find a good candidate for a Fixes tag.