Patch "arm64: Do not attempt to use init_mm in reset_context()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

Patch "arm64: Do not attempt to use init_mm in reset_context()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: Do not attempt to use init_mm in reset_context()

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-do-not-attempt-to-use-init_mm-in-reset_context.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 565630d503ef24e44c252bed55571b3a0d68455f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:24:41 +0100
Subject: arm64: Do not attempt to use init_mm in reset_context()

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

commit 565630d503ef24e44c252bed55571b3a0d68455f upstream.

After secondary CPU boot or hotplug, the active_mm of the idle thread is
&init_mm. The init_mm.pgd (swapper_pg_dir) is only meant for TTBR1_EL1
and must not be set in TTBR0_EL1. Since when active_mm == &init_mm the
TTBR0_EL1 is already set to the reserved value, there is no need to
perform any context reset.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/mm/context.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ static void reset_context(void *info)
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->active_mm;
 
+	/*
+	 * current->active_mm could be init_mm for the idle thread immediately
+	 * after secondary CPU boot or hotplug. TTBR0_EL1 is already set to
+	 * the reserved value, so no need to reset any context.
+	 */
+	if (mm == &init_mm)
+		return;
+
 	smp_rmb();
 	asid = cpu_last_asid + cpu;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from catalin.marinas@arm.com are

queue-3.14/arm64-do-not-attempt-to-use-init_mm-in-reset_context.patch
queue-3.14/arm64-vdso-work-around-broken-elf-toolchains-in-makefile.patch
queue-3.14/arm64-mm-fix-freeing-of-the-wrong-memmap-entries-with-sparsemem_vmemmap.patch