ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches

The vivt_flush_cache_{range,page} functions check that the mm_struct
of the VMA being flushed has been active on the current CPU before
performing the cache maintenance.

The gate_vma has a NULL mm_struct pointer and, as such, will cause a
kernel fault if we try to flush it with the above operations. This
happens during ELF core dumps, which include the gate_vma as it may be
useful for debugging purposes.

This patch adds checks to the VIVT cache flushing functions so that VMAs
with a NULL mm_struct are flushed unconditionally (the vectors page may
be dirty if we use it to store the current TLS pointer).

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Reported-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Tested-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 004c1bc95d2b..e4448e16046d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ static inline void vivt_flush_cache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 static inline void
 vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
-        if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm)))
+        struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+
+        if (!mm || cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm)))
                 __cpuc_flush_user_range(start & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end),
                                         vma->vm_flags);
 }
@@ -223,7 +225,9 @@ vivt_flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned
 static inline void
 vivt_flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr, unsigned long pfn)
 {
-        if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm))) {
+        struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+
+        if (!mm || cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm))) {
                 unsigned long addr = user_addr & PAGE_MASK;
                 __cpuc_flush_user_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_flags);
         }