Patch "arm64: proc: Set PTE_NG for table entries to avoid traversing them twice" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    arm64: proc: Set PTE_NG for table entries to avoid traversing them twice

to the 4.15-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-proc-set-pte_ng-for-table-entries-to-avoid-traversing-them-twice.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 2ce77f6d8a9ae9ce6d80397d88bdceb84a2004cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:14:09 +0000
Subject: arm64: proc: Set PTE_NG for table entries to avoid traversing them twice

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

commit 2ce77f6d8a9ae9ce6d80397d88bdceb84a2004cd upstream.

When KASAN is enabled, the swapper page table contains many identical
mappings of the zero page, which can lead to a stall during boot whilst
the G -> nG code continually walks the same page table entries looking
for global mappings.

This patch sets the nG bit (bit 11, which is IGNORED) in table entries
after processing the subtree so we can easily skip them if we see them
a second time.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@ ENDPROC(idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1)
 	dc	cvac, cur_\()\type\()p		// Ensure any existing dirty
 	dmb	sy				// lines are written back before
 	ldr	\type, [cur_\()\type\()p]	// loading the entry
-	tbz	\type, #0, next_\()\type	// Skip invalid entries
+	tbz	\type, #0, skip_\()\type	// Skip invalid and
+	tbnz	\type, #11, skip_\()\type	// non-global entries
 	.endm
 
 	.macro __idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng, type
@@ -249,8 +250,9 @@ ENTRY(idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings)
 	add	end_pgdp, cur_pgdp, #(PTRS_PER_PGD * 8)
 do_pgd:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pgd
 	tbnz	pgd, #1, walk_puds
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pgd
 next_pgd:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pgd
+skip_pgd:
 	add	cur_pgdp, cur_pgdp, #8
 	cmp	cur_pgdp, end_pgdp
 	b.ne	do_pgd
@@ -278,8 +280,9 @@ walk_puds:
 	add	end_pudp, cur_pudp, #(PTRS_PER_PUD * 8)
 do_pud:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pud
 	tbnz	pud, #1, walk_pmds
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pud
 next_pud:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pud
+skip_pud:
 	add	cur_pudp, cur_pudp, 8
 	cmp	cur_pudp, end_pudp
 	b.ne	do_pud
@@ -298,8 +301,9 @@ walk_pmds:
 	add	end_pmdp, cur_pmdp, #(PTRS_PER_PMD * 8)
 do_pmd:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pmd
 	tbnz	pmd, #1, walk_ptes
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pmd
 next_pmd:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pmd
+skip_pmd:
 	add	cur_pmdp, cur_pmdp, #8
 	cmp	cur_pmdp, end_pmdp
 	b.ne	do_pmd
@@ -317,7 +321,7 @@ walk_ptes:
 	add	end_ptep, cur_ptep, #(PTRS_PER_PTE * 8)
 do_pte:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pte
 	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pte
-next_pte:
+skip_pte:
 	add	cur_ptep, cur_ptep, #8
 	cmp	cur_ptep, end_ptep
 	b.ne	do_pte


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@arm.com are

queue-4.15/nospec-move-array_index_nospec-parameter-checking-into-separate-macro.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-proc-set-pte_ng-for-table-entries-to-avoid-traversing-them-twice.patch
queue-4.15/x86-mm-rename-flush_tlb_single-and-flush_tlb_one-to-__flush_tlb_one_.patch