From: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Subject: [PATCH v3] powerpc, mm: Fix mprotect on book3s 32-bit
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:40:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251116-vasi-mprotect-g3-v3-1-59a9bd33ba00@vasilevsky.ca> (raw)
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")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
---
Changes in v3:
- Fix formatting
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251111-vasi-mprotect-g3-v2-1-881c94afbc42@vasilevsky.ca
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 | 5 ++++-
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
index e43534da5207aa3b0cb3c07b78e29b833c141f3f..4be2200a3c7e1e8307f5ce1f1d5d28047429c106 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);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
void _tlbie(unsigned long address);
@@ -29,7 +30,9 @@ void _tlbia(void);
static inline void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
{
/* 603 needs to flush the whole TLB here since it doesn't use a hash table. */
- if (!mmu_has_feature(MMU_FTR_HPTE_TABLE))
+ if (mmu_has_feature(MMU_FTR_HPTE_TABLE))
+ hash__flush_gather(tlb);
+ else
_tlbia();
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c
index 9ad6b56bfec96e989b96f027d075ad5812500854..e54a7b0112322e5818d80facd2e3c7722e6dd520 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/tlb.c
@@ -105,3 +105,12 @@ void hash__flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vmaddr)
flush_hash_pages(mm->context.id, vmaddr, pmd_val(*pmd), 1);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hash__flush_tlb_page);
+
+void hash__flush_gather(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
+{
+ if (tlb->fullmm || tlb->need_flush_all)
+ hash__flush_tlb_mm(tlb->mm);
+ else
+ hash__flush_range(tlb->mm, tlb->start, tlb->end);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hash__flush_gather);
---
base-commit: 24172e0d79900908cf5ebf366600616d29c9b417
change-id: 20251027-vasi-mprotect-g3-f8f5278d4140
Best regards,
--
Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
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