[ARM] Resolve fuse and direct-IO failures due to missing cache flushes
authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:17:40 +0000 (23:17 +0000)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:49:58 +0000 (19:49 +0000)
fuse does not work on ARM due to cache incoherency issues - fuse wants
to use get_user_pages() to copy data from the current process into
kernel space.  However, since this accesses userspace via the kernel
mapping, the kernel mapping can be out of date wrt data written to
userspace.

This can lead to unpredictable behaviour (in the case of fuse) or data
corruption for direct-IO.

This resolves debian bug #402876

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/flush.c
include/asm-arm/cacheflush.h

index 628348c9f6c5f17ded5fa62ec700bdb8666e85a7..9df507d36e0b9b0f0291395da5cecd007b627f0f 100644 (file)
@@ -202,3 +202,42 @@ void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
        }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_dcache_page);
+
+/*
+ * Flush an anonymous page so that users of get_user_pages()
+ * can safely access the data.  The expected sequence is:
+ *
+ *  get_user_pages()
+ *    -> flush_anon_page
+ *  memcpy() to/from page
+ *  if written to page, flush_dcache_page()
+ */
+void __flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+{
+       unsigned long pfn;
+
+       /* VIPT non-aliasing caches need do nothing */
+       if (cache_is_vipt_nonaliasing())
+               return;
+
+       /*
+        * Write back and invalidate userspace mapping.
+        */
+       pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+       if (cache_is_vivt()) {
+               flush_cache_page(vma, vmaddr, pfn);
+       } else {
+               /*
+                * For aliasing VIPT, we can flush an alias of the
+                * userspace address only.
+                */
+               flush_pfn_alias(pfn, vmaddr);
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Invalidate kernel mapping.  No data should be contained
+        * in this mapping of the page.  FIXME: this is overkill
+        * since we actually ask for a write-back and invalidate.
+        */
+       __cpuc_flush_dcache_page(page_address(page));
+}
index d51049522cd0f764bc3f120e64032090f0626024..5f531ea03059d003bab3e86643ed2580a36133cf 100644 (file)
@@ -357,6 +357,16 @@ extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *);
 
 extern void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
 
+#define ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ANON_PAGE
+static inline void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                        struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+{
+       extern void __flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                               struct page *, unsigned long);
+       if (PageAnon(page))
+               __flush_anon_page(vma, page, vmaddr);
+}
+
 #define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping) \
        write_lock_irq(&(mapping)->tree_lock)
 #define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping) \