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Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 17:43:51 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, 
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>, 
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
	Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Fix userspace enter on LPAE with CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y

On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 16:02, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:
>
> Booting an LPAE-enabled kernel built with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
> fails when starting userspace:
>
>     Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
>     CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G        W        N 6.9.0-rc1-koelsch-00004-g7af5b901e847 #1930
>     Hardware name: Generic R-Car Gen2 (Flattened Device Tree)
>     Call trace:
>      unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
>      show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0xa8
>      dump_stack_lvl from panic+0x118/0x398
>      panic from do_exit+0x1ec/0x938
>      do_exit from sys_exit_group+0x0/0x10
>     ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!  exitcode=0x00000004 ]---
>
> Add the missing memory clobber to cpu_set_ttbcr(), as suggested by
> Russell King.
>
> Force inlining of uaccess_save_and_enable(), as suggested by Ard
> Biesheuvel.
>
> The latter fixes booting on Koelsch.
>
> Fixes: 7af5b901e84743c6 ("ARM: 9358/2: Implement PAN for LPAE by TTBR0 page table walks disablement")
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdWTAJcZ9BReWNhpmsgkOzQxLNb5OhNYxzxv6D5TSh2fwQ@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

This works around what appears to be a compiler bug (see my reply to
the other thread), and this change (the __always_inline in particular)
seems to work around it, so

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>


> ---
> Feel free to fold into the original commit.
>
> Apparently the "From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>" in
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312-arm32-lpae-pan-v3-4-532647afcd38@linaro.org
> is not reflected in commit 7af5b901e84743c6?
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h | 2 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h  | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> index 9b3105a2a5e0691e..b4986a23d8528a50 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline unsigned int cpu_get_ttbcr(void)
>
>  static inline void cpu_set_ttbcr(unsigned int ttbcr)
>  {
> -       asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c2, c0, 2" : : "r" (ttbcr));
> +       asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c2, c0, 2" : : "r" (ttbcr) : "memory");
>  }
>
>  #else  /*!CONFIG_MMU */
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index 25d21d7d6e3efee0..6c9c16d767cfd5df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static __always_inline void uaccess_restore(unsigned int flags)
>
>  #elif defined(CONFIG_CPU_TTBR0_PAN)
>
> -static inline unsigned int uaccess_save_and_enable(void)
> +static __always_inline unsigned int uaccess_save_and_enable(void)
>  {
>         unsigned int old_ttbcr = cpu_get_ttbcr();
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>