[PATCH v2] powerpc, mm: Fix mprotect on book3s 32-bit

Ritesh Harjani (IBM) ritesh.list at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 16:33:52 AEDT 2025


Dave Vasilevsky <dave at vasilevsky.ca> writes:

> On 32-bit book3s with hash-MMUs, tlb_flush() was a no-op. This was
> unnoticed because all uses until recently were for unmaps, and thus
> handled by __tlb_remove_tlb_entry().
>
> After commit 4a18419f71cd ("mm/mprotect: use mmu_gather") in kernel 5.19,
> tlb_gather_mmu() started being used for mprotect as well. This caused
> mprotect to simply not work on these machines:
>
>   int *ptr = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>                   MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>   *ptr = 1; // force HPTE to be created
>   mprotect(ptr, 4096, PROT_READ);
>   *ptr = 2; // should segfault, but succeeds
>
> Fixed by making tlb_flush() actually flush TLB pages. This finally
> agrees with the behaviour of boot3s64's tlb_flush().
>
> Fixes: 4a18419f71cd ("mm/mprotect: use mmu_gather")
> Signed-off-by: Dave Vasilevsky <dave at vasilevsky.ca>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Flush entire TLB if full mm is requested.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251027-vasi-mprotect-g3-v1-1-3c5187085f9a@vasilevsky.ca
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h | 8 ++++++--
>  arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c                | 9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> index e43534da5207aa3b0cb3c07b78e29b833c141f3f..b8c587ad2ea954f179246a57d6e86e45e91dcfdc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
>  void hash__flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
>  void hash__flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vmaddr);
>  void hash__flush_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
> +void hash__flush_gather(struct mmu_gather *tlb);

Maybe I would have preferred the following naming convention for hash
specific tlb_flush w.r.t mmu_gather, which is also similar to what
book3s64 uses ;)

- hash__tlb_flush() 

But no strong objection on this either. BTW - I did run your test
program in Qemu and I was able to reproduce the problem, and this patch
fixes it.

The change overall looks good to me. So, please feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>


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