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Andrew Morton Sept. 16, 2020, 10:55 p.m. UTC
The patch titled
     Subject: arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c: fix  __copy_user_flushcache() cache writeback
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     arch-x86-lib-usercopy_64c-fix-__copy_user_flushcache-cache-writeback.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arch-x86-lib-usercopy_64c-fix-__copy_user_flushcache-cache-writeback.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arch-x86-lib-usercopy_64c-fix-__copy_user_flushcache-cache-writeback.patch

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c: fix  __copy_user_flushcache() cache writeback

If we copy less than 8 bytes and if the destination crosses a cache line,
__copy_user_flushcache would invalidate only the first cache line.  This
patch makes it invalidate the second cache line as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.2009161451140.21915@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
Fixes: 0aed55af88345b ("x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c~arch-x86-lib-usercopy_64c-fix-__copy_user_flushcache-cache-writeback
+++ a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@  long __copy_user_flushcache(void *dst, c
 	 */
 	if (size < 8) {
 		if (!IS_ALIGNED(dest, 4) || size != 4)
-			clean_cache_range(dst, 1);
+			clean_cache_range(dst, size);
 	} else {
 		if (!IS_ALIGNED(dest, 8)) {
 			dest = ALIGN(dest, boot_cpu_data.x86_clflush_size);