[PATCH] powerpc/8xx: Fix clearing of bits 20-23 in ITLB miss

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Mon Feb 10 05:14:42 AEDT 2020


In ITLB miss handled the line supposed to clear bits 20-23 on the
L2 ITLB entry is buggy and does indeed nothing, leading to undefined
value which could allow execution when it shouldn't.

Properly do the clearing with the relevant instruction.

Fixes: 74fabcadfd43 ("powerpc/8xx: don't use r12/SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2 in TLB Miss handlers")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 9922306ae512..073a651787df 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
 	 * set.  All other Linux PTE bits control the behavior
 	 * of the MMU.
 	 */
-	rlwimi	r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00	/* Clear bits 20-23 */
+	rlwinm	r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00	/* Clear bits 20-23 */
 	rlwimi	r10, r10, 4, 0x0400	/* Copy _PAGE_EXEC into bit 21 */
 	ori	r10, r10, RPN_PATTERN | 0x200 /* Set 22 and 24-27 */
 	mtspr	SPRN_MI_RPN, r10	/* Update TLB entry */
-- 
2.25.0



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