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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-03-12 16:28:09 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-05-06 07:55:26 -0700
commitb1f2bfc9d8bb42b4e5a93470e8a0974cd4c04697 (patch)
tree63bd2b2727e30f89c6c2c9c9d9df53f603d44887 /arch
parentbdec4322971737d2d70087b6cbfd9d39e781e114 (diff)
arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes
commit 71fdb6bf61bf0692f004f9daf5650392c0cfe300 upstream. Special pte mappings are not intended to be executable and do not even have an associated struct page. This patch ensures that we do not call __sync_icache_dcache() on such ptes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e9a1a1d81892..1569b2bd91bb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
if (pte_valid_user(pte)) {
- if (pte_exec(pte))
+ if (!pte_special(pte) && pte_exec(pte))
__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
if (!pte_dirty(pte))
pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);