Re: cacheflush completely broken, suspecting PAN+LPAE

["Michał Pecio" <michal.pecio@gmail.com>]

Regarding test programs, I also wrote and tried this one yesterday.
It's based on a similar demo released by ARM, but much simplified.

It both triggers the bug and confirms the necessity of cacheflush in
JIT compilers on my CPU when it works normally (prints: 1, 1, 2).

On the buggy kernel, it usually segfaults on the first attempt to call
*code, but sometimes both __clear_cache() appear to take effect despite
the syscall returning EFAULT (according to strace), not sure why.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

int f1() {
	return 1;
}

int f2() {
	return 2;
}

int main() {
	puts("start");
	char *code = mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
			MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	int x;

	memcpy(code, f1, 0x100);
	__builtin___clear_cache(code, code + 0x100);
	x = ((int(*)())code)();
	printf("%x\n", x);

	memcpy(code, f2, 0x100);
	x = ((int(*)())code)();
	printf("%x\n", x);

	__builtin___clear_cache(code, code + 0x100);
	x = ((int(*)())code)();
	printf("%x\n", x);
}