Patch "parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE

to the 4.8-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:
     parisc-purge-tlb-before-setting-pte.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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 c78e710c1c9fbeff43dddc0aa3d0ff458e70b0cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:47:04 -0500
Subject: parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE

From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>

commit c78e710c1c9fbeff43dddc0aa3d0ff458e70b0cc upstream.

The attached change interchanges the order of purging the TLB and
setting the corresponding page table entry.  TLB purges are strongly
ordered.  It occurred to me one night that setting the PTE first might
have subtle ordering issues on SMP machines and cause random memory
corruption.

A TLB lock guards the insertion of user TLB entries.  So after the TLB
is purged, a new entry can't be inserted until the lock is released.
This ensures that the new PTE value is used when the lock is released.

Since making this change, no random segmentation faults have been
observed on the Debian hppa buildd servers.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ static inline void purge_tlb_entries(str
 		unsigned long flags;				\
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);		\
 		old_pte = *ptep;				\
-		set_pte(ptep, pteval);				\
 		if (pte_inserted(old_pte))			\
 			purge_tlb_entries(mm, addr);		\
+		set_pte(ptep, pteval);				\
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);	\
 	} while (0)
 
@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_yo
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
 		return 0;
 	}
-	set_pte(ptep, pte_mkold(pte));
 	purge_tlb_entries(vma->vm_mm, addr);
+	set_pte(ptep, pte_mkold(pte));
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -492,9 +492,9 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(s
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
 	old_pte = *ptep;
-	set_pte(ptep, __pte(0));
 	if (pte_inserted(old_pte))
 		purge_tlb_entries(mm, addr);
+	set_pte(ptep, __pte(0));
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
 
 	return old_pte;
@@ -504,8 +504,8 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(st
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
-	set_pte(ptep, pte_wrprotect(*ptep));
 	purge_tlb_entries(mm, addr);
+	set_pte(ptep, pte_wrprotect(*ptep));
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pa_tlb_lock, flags);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.anglin@bell.net are

queue-4.8/parisc-remove-unnecessary-tlb-purges-from-flush_dcache_page_asm-and-flush_icache_page_asm.patch
queue-4.8/parisc-purge-tlb-before-setting-pte.patch