powerpc/mm/radix: Fix checkstops caused by invalid tlbiel

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Apr 13 07:39:59 AEST 2018


On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 05:53:52 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> In tlbiel_radix_set_isa300() we use the PPC_TLBIEL() macro to
> construct tlbiel instructions. The instruction takes 5 fields, two of
> which are registers, and the others are constants. But because it's
> constructed with inline asm the compiler doesn't know that.
> 
> We got the constraint wrong on the 'r' field, using "r" tells the
> compiler to put the value in a register. The value we then get in the
> macro is the *register number*, not the value of the field.
> 
> That means when we mask the register number with 0x1 we get 0 or 1
> depending on which register the compiler happens to put the constant
> in, eg:
> 
>   li      r10,1
>   tlbiel  r8,r9,2,0,0
> 
>   li      r7,1
>   tlbiel  r10,r6,0,0,1
> 
> If we're unlucky we might generate an invalid instruction form, for
> example RIC=0, PRS=1 and R=0, tlbiel r8,r7,0,1,0, this has been
> observed to cause machine checks:
> 
>   Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
>   CPU: 24 PID: 0 Comm: swapper
>   NIP:  00000000000385f4 LR: 000000000100ed00 CTR: 000000000000007f
>   REGS: c00000000110bb40 TRAP: 0200
>   MSR:  9000000000201003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE>  CR: 48002222  XER: 20040000
>   CFAR: 00000000000385d0 DAR: 0000000000001c00 DSISR: 00000200 SOFTE: 1
> 
> If the machine check happens early in boot while we have MSR_ME=0 it
> will escalate into a checkstop and kill the box entirely.
> 
> To fix it we could change the inline asm constraint to "i" which
> tells the compiler the value is a constant. But a better fix is to just
> pass a literal 1 into the macro, which bypasses any problems with inline
> asm constraints.
> 
> Fixes: d4748276ae14 ("powerpc/64s: Improve local TLB flush for boot and MCE on POWER9")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.16+
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2675c13b293a007b7b7f8229514126

cheers


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