[PATCH] powerpc/64: Fix kernel stack 16-byte alignment

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 13:34:27 AEDT 2018


Commit 4c2de74cc869 ("powerpc/64: Interrupts save PPR on stack rather
than thread_struct") changed sizeof(struct pt_regs) % 16 from 0 to 8,
which causes the interrupt frame allocation on kernel entry to put the
kernel stack out of alignment.

Add a pad field to fix alignment, and add a BUILD_BUG_ON to catch this
in future.

Fixes: 4c2de74cc869 ("powerpc/64: Interrupts save PPR on stack rather
than thread_struct")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
index f73886a1a7f5..1513292bf046 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct pt_regs
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	unsigned long ppr;
+	unsigned long pad;	/* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */
 #endif
 };
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 2a51e4cc8246..236c1151a3a7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -636,6 +636,8 @@ static void *__init alloc_stack(unsigned long limit, int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long pa;
 
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE % 16);
+
 	pa = memblock_alloc_base_nid(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit,
 					early_cpu_to_node(cpu), MEMBLOCK_NONE);
 	if (!pa) {
-- 
2.18.0



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