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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-02-28 17:47:20 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-03-03 22:54:13 +0000
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ARM: 7658/1: mm: fix race updating mm->context.id on ASID rollover
If a thread triggers an ASID rollover, other threads of the same process must be made to wait until the mm->context.id for the shared mm_struct has been updated to new generation and associated book-keeping (e.g. TLB invalidation) has ben performed. However, there is a *tiny* window where both mm->context.id and the relevant active_asids entry are updated to the new generation, but the TLB flush has not been performed, which could allow another thread to return to userspace with a dirty TLB, potentially leading to data corruption. In reality this will never occur because one CPU would need to perform a context-switch in the time it takes another to do a couple of atomic test/set operations but we should plug the race anyway. This patch moves the active_asids update until after the potential TLB flush on context-switch. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.8 Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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