[PATCH] powerpc/mm: warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context

Arseny Solokha asolokha at kb.kras.ru
Mon Feb 2 16:28:16 AEDT 2015


Function __flush_tlb_page() must only be called for user contexts, so
put in extra hardening to warn on calling it for kernel context.

Signed-off-by: Arseny Solokha <asolokha at kb.kras.ru>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
index f38ea4d..cbd3d06 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
@@ -284,8 +284,15 @@ void __flush_tlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vmaddr,
 	struct cpumask *cpu_mask;
 	unsigned int pid;
 
+	/*
+	 * This function as well as __local_flush_tlb_page() must only be called
+	 * for user contexts.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!mm)))
+		return;
+
 	preempt_disable();
-	pid = mm ? mm->context.id : 0;
+	pid = mm->context.id;
 	if (unlikely(pid == MMU_NO_CONTEXT))
 		goto bail;
 	cpu_mask = mm_cpumask(mm);
-- 
2.2.2



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