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x86-32: Fix possible incomplete TLB invalidate with PAE pagetables

This patch attempts to fix:

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56461

The symptom is a crash and messages like this:

	chrome: Corrupted page table at address 34a03000
	*pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000
	Bad pagetable: 000f [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Ingo guesses this got introduced by commit 611ae8e3f520 ("x86/tlb:
enable tlb flush range support for x86") since that code started to free
unused pagetables.

On x86-32 PAE kernels, that new code has the potential to free an entire
PMD page and will clear one of the four page-directory-pointer-table
(aka pgd_t entries).

The hardware aggressively "caches" these top-level entries and invlpg
does not actually affect the CPU's copy.  If we clear one we *HAVE* to
do a full TLB flush, otherwise we might continue using a freed pmd page.
(note, we do this properly on the population side in pud_populate()).

This patch tracks whenever we clear one of these entries in the 'struct
mmu_gather', and ensures that we follow up with a full tlb flush.

BTW, I disassembled and checked that:

	if (tlb->fullmm == 0)
and
	if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all)

generate essentially the same code, so there should be zero impact there
to the !PAE case.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Artem S Tashkinov <t.artem@mailcity.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Hansen 12 years ago
parent
commit
1de14c3c5c
4 changed files with 15 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 1 1
      arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h
  2. 7 0
      arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
  3. 6 1
      include/asm-generic/tlb.h
  4. 1 0
      mm/memory.c

+ 1 - 1
arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 #define tlb_flush(tlb)							\
 {									\
-	if (tlb->fullmm == 0)						\
+	if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all) 			\
 		flush_tlb_mm_range(tlb->mm, tlb->start, tlb->end, 0UL);	\
 	else								\
 		flush_tlb_mm_range(tlb->mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL, 0UL);	\

+ 7 - 0
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c

@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ void ___pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
 void ___pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
 {
 	paravirt_release_pmd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	/*
+	 * NOTE! For PAE, any changes to the top page-directory-pointer-table
+	 * entries need a full cr3 reload to flush.
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
+	tlb->need_flush_all = 1;
+#endif
 	tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd));
 }
 

+ 6 - 1
include/asm-generic/tlb.h

@@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ struct mmu_gather {
 	unsigned int		need_flush : 1,	/* Did free PTEs */
 				fast_mode  : 1; /* No batching   */
 
-	unsigned int		fullmm;
+	/* we are in the middle of an operation to clear
+	 * a full mm and can make some optimizations */
+	unsigned int		fullmm : 1,
+	/* we have performed an operation which
+	 * requires a complete flush of the tlb */
+				need_flush_all : 1;
 
 	struct mmu_gather_batch *active;
 	struct mmu_gather_batch	local;

+ 1 - 0
mm/memory.c

@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, bool fullmm)
 	tlb->mm = mm;
 
 	tlb->fullmm     = fullmm;
+	tlb->need_flush_all = 0;
 	tlb->start	= -1UL;
 	tlb->end	= 0;
 	tlb->need_flush = 0;