[PATCH] powerpc/tm: do not use r13 for tabort_syscall
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 14:26:51 AEST 2016
tabort_syscall runs with RI=1, so a nested recoverable machine
check will load the paca into r13 and overwrite what we loaded
it with, because exceptions returning to privileged mode do not
restore r13.
Fixes: b4b56f9ecab4 (powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions)
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 73e461a..96fd031 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -368,13 +368,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
tabort_syscall:
/* Firstly we need to enable TM in the kernel */
mfmsr r10
- li r13, 1
- rldimi r10, r13, MSR_TM_LG, 63-MSR_TM_LG
+ li r9, 1
+ rldimi r10, r9, MSR_TM_LG, 63-MSR_TM_LG
mtmsrd r10, 0
/* tabort, this dooms the transaction, nothing else */
- li r13, (TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL|TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT)
- TABORT(R13)
+ li r9, (TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL|TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT)
+ TABORT(R9)
/*
* Return directly to userspace. We have corrupted user register state,
@@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ tabort_syscall:
* resume after the tbegin of the aborted transaction with the
* checkpointed register state.
*/
- li r13, MSR_RI
- andc r10, r10, r13
+ li r9, MSR_RI
+ andc r10, r10, r9
mtmsrd r10, 1
mtspr SPRN_SRR0, r11
mtspr SPRN_SRR1, r12
--
2.8.1
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