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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y] arm64: mm: Fix the break-before-make flush range for erratum 2645198
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2026 18:16:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005221633.3438428-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026100552-severity-animate-dbb7@gregkh>

From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 1fef81669147d63eb8c5d3627d54eadc21173a0b ]

modify_prot_start_ptes() performs the break-before-make TLB invalidation
required by erratum 2645198 with __flush_tlb_range(), whose third
argument is the end address of the range.  It passes nr * PAGE_SIZE
instead of addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE, so __do_flush_tlb_range() computes the
page count as (nr * PAGE_SIZE - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT.

For addr > nr * PAGE_SIZE that subtraction underflows, the page count
exceeds the batching limit and the flush degenerates to flush_tlb_mm(),
so a single-page mprotect broadcasts an ASID-wide invalidation and a
full-range mmu notifier call.

For addr <= nr * PAGE_SIZE only [addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE) is invalidated,
and when the cleared batch starts below nr * PAGE_SIZE the tail is left
in the TLB.  The workaround then no longer covers the whole batch, and
for addr == nr * PAGE_SIZE the flush is empty.

On affected Cortex-A715 CPUs, this can corrupt ESR_ELx and FAR_ELx on the
next instruction abort caused by a permission fault.

Pass addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE as the end address.

Fixes: 7efa1cd5f89b5 ("arm64: add batched versions of ptep_modify_prot_start/commit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
[ sashal: Adapted __flush_tlb_range() arguments from PAGE_SIZE, 3, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE to PAGE_SIZE, true, 3. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index a4503910afb8b..71841b5c31928 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -2150,7 +2150,7 @@ pte_t modify_prot_start_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
 		 */
 		if (pte_accessible(vma->vm_mm, pte) && pte_user_exec(pte))
-			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE,
+			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE,
 					  PAGE_SIZE, true, 3);
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-10-05 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-05 10:23 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix the break-before-make flush range for erratum" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-10-05 22:16 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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