Commit 71fdb6bf authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas

arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes

Special pte mappings are not intended to be executable and do not even
have an associated struct page. This patch ensures that we do not call
__sync_icache_dcache() on such ptes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSteve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: default avatarBharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
parent de2db743
......@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
if (pte_valid_user(pte)) {
if (pte_exec(pte))
if (!pte_special(pte) && pte_exec(pte))
__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
if (pte_dirty(pte) && pte_write(pte))
pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;
......
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