[PATCH] powerpc/tm: Fix userspace r13 corruption

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Mon Sep 24 17:27:04 AEST 2018


When we treclaim we store the userspace checkpointed r13 to a scratch
SPR and then later save the scratch SPR to the user thread struct.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as accessing the user thread struct
can take an SLB fault and the SLB fault handler will write the same
scratch SPRG that now contains the userspace r13.

To fix this, we store r13 to the kernel stack (which can't fault)
before we access the user thread struct.

Found by running P8 guest + powervm + disable_1tb_segments + TM. Seen
as a random userspace segfault with r13 looking like a kernel address.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S
index 6bffbc5aff..701b0f5b09 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/tm.S
@@ -176,13 +176,20 @@ _GLOBAL(tm_reclaim)
 	std	r1, PACATMSCRATCH(r13)
 	ld	r1, PACAR1(r13)
 
-	/* Store the PPR in r11 and reset to decent value */
 	std	r11, GPR11(r1)			/* Temporary stash */
 
+	/* Store r13 away so we can free up the scratch SPR for the
+	 * SLB fault handler (needed once we start access the
+	 * thread_struct)
+	 */
+	GET_SCRATCH0(r11)
+	std	r11, GPR13(r1)
+
 	/* Reset MSR RI so we can take SLB faults again */
 	li	r11, MSR_RI
 	mtmsrd	r11, 1
 
+	/* Store the PPR in r11 and reset to decent value */
 	mfspr	r11, SPRN_PPR
 	HMT_MEDIUM
 
@@ -211,7 +218,7 @@ _GLOBAL(tm_reclaim)
 	ld	r4, GPR7(r1)			/* user r7 */
 	ld	r5, GPR11(r1)			/* user r11 */
 	ld	r6, GPR12(r1)			/* user r12 */
-	GET_SCRATCH0(8)				/* user r13 */
+	ld	r8, GPR13(r1)			/* user r13 */
 	std	r3, GPR1(r7)
 	std	r4, GPR7(r7)
 	std	r5, GPR11(r7)
-- 
2.17.1



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