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<title>KVM: MIPS: Drop other CPU ASIDs on guest MMU changes</title>
<updated>2016-10-16T15:36:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-15T16:20:06+00:00</published>
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commit 91e4f1b6073dd680d86cdb7e42d7cccca9db39d8 upstream.

When a guest TLB entry is replaced by TLBWI or TLBWR, we only invalidate
TLB entries on the local CPU. This doesn't work correctly on an SMP host
when the guest is migrated to a different physical CPU, as it could pick
up stale TLB mappings from the last time the vCPU ran on that physical
CPU.

Therefore invalidate both user and kernel host ASIDs on other CPUs,
which will cause new ASIDs to be generated when it next runs on those
CPUs.

We're careful only to do this if the TLB entry was already valid, and
only for the kernel ASID where the virtual address it mapped is outside
of the guest user address range.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 91e4f1b6073dd680d86cdb7e42d7cccca9db39d8 upstream.

When a guest TLB entry is replaced by TLBWI or TLBWR, we only invalidate
TLB entries on the local CPU. This doesn't work correctly on an SMP host
when the guest is migrated to a different physical CPU, as it could pick
up stale TLB mappings from the last time the vCPU ran on that physical
CPU.

Therefore invalidate both user and kernel host ASIDs on other CPUs,
which will cause new ASIDs to be generated when it next runs on those
CPUs.

We're careful only to do this if the TLB entry was already valid, and
only for the kernel ASID where the virtual address it mapped is outside
of the guest user address range.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: uprobes: fix use of uninitialised variable</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T13:38:33+00:00</published>
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commit ca86c9ef2b322ebf24772009fdea037688cbdac1 upstream.

arch_uprobe_pre_xol needs to emulate a branch if a branch instruction
has been replaced with a breakpoint, but in fact an uninitialised local
variable was passed to the emulator routine instead of the original
instruction

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14300/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ca86c9ef2b322ebf24772009fdea037688cbdac1 upstream.

arch_uprobe_pre_xol needs to emulate a branch if a branch instruction
has been replaced with a breakpoint, but in fact an uninitialised local
variable was passed to the emulator routine instead of the original
instruction

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14300/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Malta: Fix IOCU disable switch read for MIPS64</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-02T15:07:10+00:00</published>
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commit 305723ab439e14debc1d339aa04e835d488b8253 upstream.

Malta boards used with CPU emulators feature a switch to disable use of
an IOCU. Software has to check this switch &amp; ignore any present IOCU if
the switch is closed. The read used to do this was unsafe for 64 bit
kernels, as it simply casted the address 0xbf403000 to a pointer &amp;
dereferenced it. Whilst in a 32 bit kernel this would access kseg1, in a
64 bit kernel this attempts to access xuseg &amp; results in an address
error exception.

Fix by accessing a correctly formed ckseg1 address generated using the
CKSEG1ADDR macro.

Whilst modifying this code, define the name of the register and the bit
we care about within it, which indicates whether PCI DMA is routed to
the IOCU or straight to DRAM. The code previously checked that bit 0 was
also set, but the least significant 7 bits of the CONFIG_GEN0 register
contain the value of the MReqInfo signal provided to the IOCU OCP bus,
so singling out bit 0 makes little sense &amp; that part of the check is
dropped.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: b6d92b4a6bdb ("MIPS: Add option to disable software I/O coherency.")
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14187/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 305723ab439e14debc1d339aa04e835d488b8253 upstream.

Malta boards used with CPU emulators feature a switch to disable use of
an IOCU. Software has to check this switch &amp; ignore any present IOCU if
the switch is closed. The read used to do this was unsafe for 64 bit
kernels, as it simply casted the address 0xbf403000 to a pointer &amp;
dereferenced it. Whilst in a 32 bit kernel this would access kseg1, in a
64 bit kernel this attempts to access xuseg &amp; results in an address
error exception.

Fix by accessing a correctly formed ckseg1 address generated using the
CKSEG1ADDR macro.

Whilst modifying this code, define the name of the register and the bit
we care about within it, which indicates whether PCI DMA is routed to
the IOCU or straight to DRAM. The code previously checked that bit 0 was
also set, but the least significant 7 bits of the CONFIG_GEN0 register
contain the value of the MReqInfo signal provided to the IOCU OCP bus,
so singling out bit 0 makes little sense &amp; that part of the check is
dropped.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: b6d92b4a6bdb ("MIPS: Add option to disable software I/O coherency.")
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14187/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: fix uretprobe implementation</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T13:38:31+00:00</published>
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commit db06068a4fd44a57b642b369d2a295b8448f6b65 upstream.

arch_uretprobe_hijack_return_addr should replace the return address for
a call with a trampoline address.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14298/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit db06068a4fd44a57b642b369d2a295b8448f6b65 upstream.

arch_uretprobe_hijack_return_addr should replace the return address for
a call with a trampoline address.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14298/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: uprobes: remove incorrect set_orig_insn</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T13:38:32+00:00</published>
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commit ddabfa5c2e33f1b495f3e0176de7057850915c0b upstream.

Generic kernel code implements a weak version of set_orig_insn that
moves cached 'insn' from arch_uprobe to the original code location when
the trap is removed.
MIPS variant used arch_uprobe-&gt;orig_inst which was never initialised
properly, so this code only inserted a nop instead of the original
instruction. With that change orig_inst can also be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14299/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ddabfa5c2e33f1b495f3e0176de7057850915c0b upstream.

Generic kernel code implements a weak version of set_orig_insn that
moves cached 'insn' from arch_uprobe to the original code location when
the trap is removed.
MIPS variant used arch_uprobe-&gt;orig_inst which was never initialised
properly, so this code only inserted a nop instead of the original
instruction. With that change orig_inst can also be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.')
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14299/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: paravirt: Fix undefined reference to smp_bootstrap</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-05T14:43:40+00:00</published>
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commit 951c39cd3bc0aedf67fbd8fb4b9380287e6205d1 upstream.

If the paravirt machine is compiles without CONFIG_SMP, the following
linker error occurs

arch/mips/kernel/head.o: In function `kernel_entry':
(.ref.text+0x10): undefined reference to `smp_bootstrap'

due to the kernel entry macro always including SMP startup code.
Wrap this code in CONFIG_SMP to fix the error.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14212/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 951c39cd3bc0aedf67fbd8fb4b9380287e6205d1 upstream.

If the paravirt machine is compiles without CONFIG_SMP, the following
linker error occurs

arch/mips/kernel/head.o: In function `kernel_entry':
(.ref.text+0x10): undefined reference to `smp_bootstrap'

due to the kernel entry macro always including SMP startup code.
Wrap this code in CONFIG_SMP to fix the error.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14212/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add a missing ".set pop" in an early commit</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhc@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-05T00:48:03+00:00</published>
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commit 3cbc6fc9c99f1709203711f125bc3b79487aba06 upstream.

Commit 842dfc11ea9a21 ("MIPS: Fix build with binutils 2.24.51+") missing
a ".set pop" in macro fpu_restore_16even, so add it.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14210/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3cbc6fc9c99f1709203711f125bc3b79487aba06 upstream.

Commit 842dfc11ea9a21 ("MIPS: Fix build with binutils 2.24.51+") missing
a ".set pop" in macro fpu_restore_16even, so add it.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14210/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Avoid a BUG warning during prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...)</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-31T10:33:23+00:00</published>
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commit b244614a60ab7ce54c12a9cbe15cfbf8d79d0967 upstream.

cpu_has_fpu macro uses smp_processor_id() and is currently executed
with preemption enabled, that triggers the warning at runtime.

It is assumed throughout the kernel that if any CPU has an FPU, then all
CPUs would have an FPU as well, so it is safe to perform the check with
preemption enabled - change the code to use raw_ variant of the check to
avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14125/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b244614a60ab7ce54c12a9cbe15cfbf8d79d0967 upstream.

cpu_has_fpu macro uses smp_processor_id() and is currently executed
with preemption enabled, that triggers the warning at runtime.

It is assumed throughout the kernel that if any CPU has an FPU, then all
CPUs would have an FPU as well, so it is safe to perform the check with
preemption enabled - change the code to use raw_ variant of the check to
avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14125/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove compact branch policy Kconfig entries</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-12T09:58:06+00:00</published>
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commit b03c1e3b8eed9026733c473071d1f528358a0e50 upstream.

Commit c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
added Kconfig entries allowing for the compact branch policy used by the
compiler for MIPSr6 kernels to be specified. This can be useful for
debugging, particularly in systems where compact branches have recently
been introduced.

Unfortunately mainline gcc 5.x supports MIPSr6 but not the
-mcompact-branches compiler flag, leading to MIPSr6 kernels failing to
build with gcc 5.x with errors such as:

  mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mcompact-branches=optimal'
  make[2]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1

Fixing this by hiding the Kconfig entry behind another seems to be more
hassle than it's worth, as MIPSr6 &amp; compact branches have been around
for a while now and if policy does need to be set for debug it can be
done easily enough with KCFLAGS. Therefore remove the compact branch
policy Kconfig entries &amp; their handling in the Makefile.

This reverts commit c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to
be changed").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14241/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b03c1e3b8eed9026733c473071d1f528358a0e50 upstream.

Commit c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
added Kconfig entries allowing for the compact branch policy used by the
compiler for MIPSr6 kernels to be specified. This can be useful for
debugging, particularly in systems where compact branches have recently
been introduced.

Unfortunately mainline gcc 5.x supports MIPSr6 but not the
-mcompact-branches compiler flag, leading to MIPSr6 kernels failing to
build with gcc 5.x with errors such as:

  mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mcompact-branches=optimal'
  make[2]: *** [kernel/bounds.s] Error 1

Fixing this by hiding the Kconfig entry behind another seems to be more
hassle than it's worth, as MIPSr6 &amp; compact branches have been around
for a while now and if policy does need to be set for debug it can be
done easily enough with KCFLAGS. Therefore remove the compact branch
policy Kconfig entries &amp; their handling in the Makefile.

This reverts commit c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to
be changed").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: c1a0e9bc885d ("MIPS: Allow compact branch policy to be changed")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14241/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>MIPS: vDSO: Fix Malta EVA mapping to vDSO page structs</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:18:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-07T12:37:01+00:00</published>
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commit 554af0c396380baf416f54c439b99b495180b2f4 upstream.

The page structures associated with the vDSO pages in the kernel image
are calculated using virt_to_page(), which uses __pa() under the hood to
find the pfn associated with the virtual address. The vDSO data pointers
however point to kernel symbols, so __pa_symbol() should really be used
instead.

Since there is no equivalent to virt_to_page() which uses __pa_symbol(),
fix init_vdso_image() to work directly with pfns, calculated with
__phys_to_pfn(__pa_symbol(...)).

This issue broke the Malta Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA)
configuration which has a non-default implementation of __pa_symbol().
This is because it uses a physical alias so that the kernel executes
from KSeg0 (VA 0x80000000 -&gt; PA 0x00000000), while RAM is provided to
the kernel in the KUSeg range (VA 0x00000000 -&gt; PA 0x80000000) which
uses the same underlying RAM.

Since there are no page structures associated with the low physical
address region, some arbitrary kernel memory would be interpreted as a
page structure for the vDSO pages and badness ensues.

Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14229/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 554af0c396380baf416f54c439b99b495180b2f4 upstream.

The page structures associated with the vDSO pages in the kernel image
are calculated using virt_to_page(), which uses __pa() under the hood to
find the pfn associated with the virtual address. The vDSO data pointers
however point to kernel symbols, so __pa_symbol() should really be used
instead.

Since there is no equivalent to virt_to_page() which uses __pa_symbol(),
fix init_vdso_image() to work directly with pfns, calculated with
__phys_to_pfn(__pa_symbol(...)).

This issue broke the Malta Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA)
configuration which has a non-default implementation of __pa_symbol().
This is because it uses a physical alias so that the kernel executes
from KSeg0 (VA 0x80000000 -&gt; PA 0x00000000), while RAM is provided to
the kernel in the KUSeg range (VA 0x00000000 -&gt; PA 0x80000000) which
uses the same underlying RAM.

Since there are no page structures associated with the low physical
address region, some arbitrary kernel memory would be interpreted as a
page structure for the vDSO pages and badness ensues.

Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14229/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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