Patch "powerpc/mm/radix: Properly clear process table entry" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/mm/radix: Properly clear process table entry

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-mm-radix-properly-clear-process-table-entry.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c6bb0b8d426a8cf865ca9c8a532cc3a2927cfceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 07:45:32 -0500
Subject: powerpc/mm/radix: Properly clear process table entry

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

commit c6bb0b8d426a8cf865ca9c8a532cc3a2927cfceb upstream.

On radix, the process table entry we want to clear when destroying a
context is entry 0, not entry 1. This has no *immediate* consequence
on Power9, but it can cause other bugs to become worse.

Fixes: 7e381c0ff618 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add mmu context handling callback for radix")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c |   12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
@@ -223,9 +223,15 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *m
 	mm->context.cop_lockp = NULL;
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX */
 
-	if (radix_enabled())
-		process_tb[mm->context.id].prtb1 = 0;
-	else
+	if (radix_enabled()) {
+		/*
+		 * Radix doesn't have a valid bit in the process table
+		 * entries. However we know that at least P9 implementation
+		 * will avoid caching an entry with an invalid RTS field,
+		 * and 0 is invalid. So this will do.
+		 */
+		process_tb[mm->context.id].prtb0 = 0;
+	} else
 		subpage_prot_free(mm);
 	destroy_pagetable_page(mm);
 	__destroy_context(mm->context.id);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from benh@kernel.crashing.org are

queue-4.12/powerpc-mm-radix-properly-clear-process-table-entry.patch