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* [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: fix race updating mm->context.id on ASID rollover
@ 2013-02-25 15:18 Will Deacon
  2013-02-25 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: make mm->context.id an atomic64_t variable Will Deacon
  2013-02-25 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: fix race updating mm->context.id on ASID rollover Catalin Marinas
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From: Will Deacon @ 2013-02-25 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

If a thread triggers an ASID rollover, other threads of the same process
must be made to wait until the mm->context.id for the shared mm_struct
has been updated to new generation and associated book-keeping (e.g.
TLB invalidation) has ben performed.

However, there is a *tiny* window where both mm->context.id and the
relevant active_asids entry are updated to the new generation, but the
TLB flush has not been performed, which could allow another thread to
return to userspace with a dirty TLB, potentially leading to data
corruption. In reality this will never occur because one CPU would need
to perform a context-switch in the time it takes another to do a couple
of atomic test/set operations but we should plug the race anyway.

This patch moves the active_asids update until after the potential TLB
flush on context-switch.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/context.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/context.c b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
index 7a05111..03ba181 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
@@ -207,11 +207,11 @@ void check_and_switch_context(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if ((mm->context.id ^ atomic64_read(&asid_generation)) >> ASID_BITS)
 		new_context(mm, cpu);
 
-	atomic64_set(&per_cpu(active_asids, cpu), mm->context.id);
-	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(mm));
-
 	if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, &tlb_flush_pending))
 		local_flush_tlb_all();
+
+	atomic64_set(&per_cpu(active_asids, cpu), mm->context.id);
+	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(mm));
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_asid_lock, flags);
 
 switch_mm_fastpath:
-- 
1.8.0

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