From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:23:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mm: avoid attempting to flush the gate_vma with VIVT caches Message-ID: <1342455826-9425-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org The vivt_flush_cache_{range,page} functions check that the mm_struct of the VMA being flushed has been active on the current CPU before performing the cache maintenance. The gate_vma has a NULL mm_struct pointer and, as such, will cause a kernel fault if we try to flush it with the above operations. This happens during ELF core dumps, which include the gate_vma as it may be useful for debugging purposes. This patch adds checks to the VIVT cache flushing functions so that VMAs with a NULL mm_struct are ignored. Cc: Uros Bizjak Reported-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h index 004c1bc..8cf828e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ static inline void vivt_flush_cache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) static inline void vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm))) + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + + if (mm && cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm))) __cpuc_flush_user_range(start & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end), vma->vm_flags); } @@ -223,7 +225,9 @@ vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned static inline void vivt_flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr, unsigned long pfn) { - if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm))) { + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; + + if (mm && cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm))) { unsigned long addr = user_addr & PAGE_MASK; __cpuc_flush_user_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_flags); } -- 1.7.4.1