[ 46/75] s390/mm: fix flush_tlb_kernel_range()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 17:51:18 EST


3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit f6a70a07079518280022286a1dceb797d12e1edf upstream.

Our flush_tlb_kernel_range() implementation calls __tlb_flush_mm() with
&init_mm as argument. __tlb_flush_mm() however will only flush tlbs
for the passed in mm if its mm_cpumask is not empty.

For the init_mm however its mm_cpumask has never any bits set. Which in
turn means that our flush_tlb_kernel_range() implementation doesn't
work at all.

This can be easily verified with a vmalloc/vfree loop which allocates
a page, writes to it and then frees the page again. A crash will follow
almost instantly.

To fix this remove the cpumask_empty() check in __tlb_flush_mm() since
there shouldn't be too many mms with a zero mm_cpumask, besides the
init_mm of course.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ static inline void __tlb_flush_idte(unsi

static inline void __tlb_flush_mm(struct mm_struct * mm)
{
- if (unlikely(cpumask_empty(mm_cpumask(mm))))
- return;
/*
* If the machine has IDTE we prefer to do a per mm flush
* on all cpus instead of doing a local flush if the mm


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