[PATCH] powerpc/64s: watchdog fix stack setup
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 22:50:27 AEST 2017
The watchdog soft-NMI exception stack setup loads a stack pointer
twice, which is an obvious error. It ends up using the system reset
interrupt (true-NMI) stack, which is also a bug because the watchdog
could be preempted by a system reset interrupt that overwrites the
NMI stack.
Change the soft-NMI to use the "emergency stack". The current kernel
stack is not used, because of the longer-term goal to prevent
asynchronous stack access using soft-disable.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
This was tested by booting a kernel and verifying there was some
soft NMI activity, and also by deliberately causing a watchdog
lockup from the soft NMI path. Seems to be working.
In the system simulator you can inject a system reset when in the
soft_nmi_interrupt function and things go haywire without this
patch.
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index 9029afd1fa2a..f14f3c04ec7e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -1325,10 +1325,18 @@ EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x5800, 0x100)
std r10,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R13(r13); \
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES_1(soft_nmi_common, _H)
+/*
+ * Branch to soft_nmi_interrupt using the emergency stack. The emergency
+ * stack is one that is usable by maskable interrupts so long as MSR_EE
+ * remains off. It is used for recovery when something has corrupted the
+ * normal kernel stack, for example. The "soft NMI" must not use the process
+ * stack because we want irq disabled sections to avoid touching the stack
+ * at all (other than PMU interrupts), so use the emergency stack for this,
+ * and run it entirely with interrupts hard disabled.
+ */
EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(soft_nmi_common)
mr r10,r1
ld r1,PACAEMERGSP(r13)
- ld r1,PACA_NMI_EMERG_SP(r13)
subi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE
EXCEPTION_COMMON_NORET_STACK(PACA_EXGEN, 0x900,
system_reset, soft_nmi_interrupt,
--
2.11.0
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