From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix the break-before-make flush range for erratum 2645198
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:36:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260923143636.89480-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com> (raw)
modify_prot_start_ptes() performs the break-before-make TLB invalidation
required by erratum 2645198 with __flush_tlb_range(), whose third
argument is the end address of the range. It passes nr * PAGE_SIZE
instead of addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE, so __do_flush_tlb_range() computes the
page count as (nr * PAGE_SIZE - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT.
For addr > nr * PAGE_SIZE that subtraction underflows, the page count
exceeds the batching limit and the flush degenerates to flush_tlb_mm(),
so a single-page mprotect broadcasts an ASID-wide invalidation and a
full-range mmu notifier call.
For addr <= nr * PAGE_SIZE only [addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE) is invalidated,
and when the cleared batch starts below nr * PAGE_SIZE the tail is left
in the TLB. The workaround then no longer covers the whole batch, and
for addr == nr * PAGE_SIZE the flush is empty.
On affected Cortex-A715 CPUs, this can corrupt ESR_ELx and FAR_ELx on the
next instruction abort caused by a permission fault.
Pass addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE as the end address.
Fixes: 7efa1cd5f89b5 ("arm64: add batched versions of ptep_modify_prot_start/commit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 79d90226fd5dc..d4384131e10d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ pte_t modify_prot_start_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
* in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
*/
if (pte_accessible(vma->vm_mm, pte) && pte_user_exec(pte))
- __flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE,
+ __flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE,
PAGE_SIZE, 3, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
}
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-23 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-23 14:36 Andrea Parri [this message]
2026-09-24 4:45 ` [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix the break-before-make flush range for erratum 2645198 Dev Jain
2026-09-24 9:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-09-24 10:31 ` Will Deacon
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