linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] nios2: force update_mmu_cache on spurious tlb-permission--related pagefaults

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 <fm-32642-20250327135424aa7366db7c0019fdb7-ahhkqZ@errorhandling.siemens-energy.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:54:22 +0100
From: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@...mens-energy.com>
To: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Andreas Oetken <andreas.oetken@...mens-energy.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@...mens-energy.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] nios2: force update_mmu_cache on spurious
 tlb-permission--related pagefaults

NIOS2 uses a software-managed TLB for virtual address translation. To
flush a cache line, the original mapping is replaced by one to physical
address 0x0 with no permissions (rwx mapped to 0) set. This can lead to
TLB-permission--related traps when such a nominally flushed entry is
encountered as a mapping for an otherwise valid virtual address within a
process (e.g. due to an MMU-PID-namespace rollover that previously
flushed the complete TLB including entries of existing, running
processes).

The default ptep_set_access_flags implementation from mm/pgtable-generic.c
only forces a TLB-update when the page-table entry has changed within the
page table:

	/*
	 * [...] We return whether the PTE actually changed, which in turn
	 * instructs the caller to do things like update__mmu_cache. [...]
	 */
	int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
				  unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
				  pte_t entry, int dirty)
	{
		int changed = !pte_same(*ptep, entry);
		if (changed) {
			set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep, entry);
			flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(vma, address);
		}
		return changed;
	}

However, no cross-referencing with the TLB-state occurs, so the
flushing-induced pseudo entries that are responsible for the pagefault
in the first place are never pre-empted from TLB on this code path.

This commit fixes this behaviour by always requesting a TLB-update in
this part of the pagefault handling, fixing spurious page-faults on the
way. The handling is a straightforward port of the logic from the MIPS
architecture via an arch-specific ptep_set_access_flags function ported
from arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@...mens-energy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Oetken <andreas.oetken@...mens-energy.com>
---
 arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
index eab87c6beacb..e5d64c84aadf 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -291,4 +291,20 @@ void update_mmu_cache_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, ptep) \
 	update_mmu_cache_range(NULL, vma, addr, ptep, 1)

+static inline int pte_same(pte_t pte_a, pte_t pte_b);
+
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
+static inline int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
+					pte_t entry, int dirty)
+{
+	if (!pte_same(*ptep, entry))
+		set_ptes(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep, entry, 1);
+	/*
+	 * update_mmu_cache will unconditionally execute, handling both
+	 * the case that the PTE changed and the spurious fault case.
+	 */
+	return true;
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_NIOS2_PGTABLE_H */
-- 
2.39.5