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s390/mm: fix asce_bits handling with dynamic pagetable levels
authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:38:40 +0000 (16:38 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 May 2016 00:06:44 +0000 (17:06 -0700)
commitce1bc448bac01edfccdc26d8318cfd39aa09e6e0
treec9c139dc5364a4c58062f0b50931849f01970bac
parent1d77f0a51cb6517d72146c6cb81a997b060b68b2
s390/mm: fix asce_bits handling with dynamic pagetable levels

commit 723cacbd9dc79582e562c123a0bacf8bfc69e72a upstream.

There is a race with multi-threaded applications between context switch and
pagetable upgrade. In switch_mm() a new user_asce is built from mm->pgd and
mm->context.asce_bits, w/o holding any locks. A concurrent mmap with a
pagetable upgrade on another thread in crst_table_upgrade() could already
have set new asce_bits, but not yet the new mm->pgd. This would result in a
corrupt user_asce in switch_mm(), and eventually in a kernel panic from a
translation exception.

Fix this by storing the complete asce instead of just the asce_bits, which
can then be read atomically from switch_mm(), so that it either sees the
old value or the new value, but no mixture. Both cases are OK. Having the
old value would result in a page fault on access to the higher level memory,
but the fault handler would see the new mm->pgd, if it was a valid access
after the mmap on the other thread has completed. So as worst-case scenario
we would have a page fault loop for the racing thread until the next time
slice.

Also remove dead code and simplify the upgrade/downgrade path, there are no
upgrades from 2 levels, and only downgrades from 3 levels for compat tasks.
There are also no concurrent upgrades, because the mmap_sem is held with
down_write() in do_mmap, so the flush and table checks during upgrade can
be removed.

Reported-by: Michael Munday <munday@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h
arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h
arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
arch/s390/mm/init.c
arch/s390/mm/mmap.c
arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c