[PATCH 6.18 305/752] vhost: fix caching attributes of MMIO regions by setting them explicitly

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:52:23Z

From: Kommula Shiva Shankar <kshankar@marvell.com>

[ Upstream commit 5145b277309f3818e2db507f525d19ac3b910922 ]

Explicitly set non-cached caching attributes for MMIO regions.
Default write-back mode can cause CPU to cache device memory,
causing invalid reads and unpredictable behavior.

Invalid read and write issues were observed on ARM64 when mapping the
notification area to userspace via mmap.

Signed-off-by: Kommula Shiva Shankar <kshankar@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20260102065703.656255-1-kshankar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
index 05a481e4c385a..b0179e8567aba 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
@@ -1527,6 +1527,7 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start != notify.size)
return -ENOTSUPP;

+ vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
vm_flags_set(vma, VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP);
vma->vm_ops = &vhost_vdpa_vm_ops;
return 0;
--
2.51.0