In ITLB miss handled the line supposed to clear bits 20-23 on the L2 ITLB entry is buggy and does indeed nothing, leading to undefined value which could allow execution when it shouldn't.
Properly do the clearing with the relevant instruction. Fixes: 74fabcadfd43 ("powerpc/8xx: don't use r12/SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2 in TLB Miss handlers") Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S index 9922306ae512..073a651787df 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ InstructionTLBMiss: * set. All other Linux PTE bits control the behavior * of the MMU. */ - rlwimi r10, r10, 0, 0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */ + rlwinm r10, r10, 0, ~0x0f00 /* Clear bits 20-23 */ rlwimi r10, r10, 4, 0x0400 /* Copy _PAGE_EXEC into bit 21 */ ori r10, r10, RPN_PATTERN | 0x200 /* Set 22 and 24-27 */ mtspr SPRN_MI_RPN, r10 /* Update TLB entry */ -- 2.25.0