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Nicholas Piggin authored
kexec can leave MMU registers set when booting into a new kernel, the PIDR (Process Identification Register) in particular. The boot sequence does not zero PIDR, so it only gets set when CPUs first switch to a userspace processes (until then it's running a kernel thread with effective PID = 0). This leaves a window where a process table entry and page tables are set up due to user processes running on other CPUs, that happen to match with a stale PID. The CPU with that PID may cause speculative accesses that address quadrant 0 (aka userspace addresses), which will result in cached translations and PWC (Page Walk Cache) for that process, on a CPU which is not in the mm_cpumask and so they will not be invalidated properly. The most common result is the kernel hanging in infinite page fault loops soon after kexec (usually in schedule_tail, which is usually the first non-speculative quadrant 0 access to a new PID) due to a stale PWC. However being a stale translation error, it could result in anything up to security and data corruption problems. Fix this by zeroing out PIDR at boot and kexec. Fixes: 7e381c0f ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add mmu context handling callback for radix") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+ Signed-off-by:
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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