This reverts commit 0bfc445dec.
When we change the permissions of regions mapped using contiguous
entries, the architecture requires us to follow a Break-Before-Make
strategy, breaking *all* associated entries before we can change any of
the following properties from the entries:
- presence of the contiguous bit
- output address
- attributes
- permissiones
Failure to do so can result in a number of problems (e.g. TLB conflict
aborts and/or erroneous results from TLB lookups).
See ARM DDI 0487A.k_iss10775, "Misprogramming of the Contiguous bit",
page D4-1762.
We do not take this into account when altering the permissions of kernel
segments in mark_rodata_ro(), where we change the permissions of live
contiguous entires one-by-one, leaving them transiently inconsistent.
This has been observed to result in failures on some fast model
configurations.
Unfortunately, we cannot follow Break-Before-Make here as we'd have to
unmap kernel text and data used to perform the sequence.
For the timebeing, revert commit 0bfc445dec so as to avoid issues
resulting from this misuse of the contiguous bit.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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