arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:05:36 +0000 (16:05 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:49:36 +0000 (21:49 -0800)
commitc8f487a49a527990b29795f22884c3af02b94d97
tree1b69e3fddd05991531eec22562f3d4c56d23d0ba
parentc2db3a421b92e6f616405b47cfc03ff249492a34
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>
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c