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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2008-02-06 06:43:26 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-02-06 16:30:01 +1100
commit551ed332da2f52daf5d01fc76d2a894aba79d316 (patch)
treea7b6ef800cf9d32344fe3e6989eb17607e00fd3c /arch/powerpc
parentf5903ede0015db5b53458092b6ae2af074fa49d4 (diff)
[POWERPC] update_mmu_cache: Don't cache-flush non-readable pages
Currently, update_mmu_cache will crash if given a no-access PTE. There's no need to synchronize dcache/icache unless it's an exec mapping -- however, due to the existence of older glibc versions that execute out of a read-but-no-exec page, readability is tested instead. This assumes no exec-only mappings; if such mappings become supported, they will need to go through the kmap_atomic() version of dcache/icache synchronization. This fixes a bug reported by some users where the kernel would crash while dumping core on a threaded program. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index e8122447f01..c7d7bd43a25 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -483,7 +483,12 @@ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
*/
_tlbie(address, 0 /* 8xx doesn't care about PID */);
#endif
- if (!PageReserved(page)
+ /* The _PAGE_USER test should really be _PAGE_EXEC, but
+ * older glibc versions execute some code from no-exec
+ * pages, which for now we are supporting. If exec-only
+ * pages are ever implemented, this will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!PageReserved(page) && (pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_USER)
&& !test_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags)) {
if (vma->vm_mm == current->active_mm) {
__flush_dcache_icache((void *) address);