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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-12-10 16:05:36 +0000
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2016-02-12 08:58:00 +0100
commit13d8053e68813b547854150d7628e45774210bda (patch)
treec1919a3c634f314ac0175874ee1381fb5803cba8 /arch
parent8abc0d5b51e7d178e0f0c42814e9830e25bc4509 (diff)
arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
commit 32d6397805d00573ce1fa55f408ce2bca15b0ad3 upstream. In paging_init, we allocate the zero page, memset it to zero and then point TTBR0 to it in order to avoid speculative fetches through the identity mapping. In order to guarantee that the freshly zeroed page is indeed visible to the page table walker, we need to execute a dsb instruction prior to writing the TTBR. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index f8dc7e8fce6f..84ddb372fbc6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);
+ /* Ensure the zero page is visible to the page table walker */
+ dsb();
+
/*
* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it
* point to zero page to avoid speculatively fetching new entries.