[PATCH v16 00/21] powerpc: Switch to CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 5 22:31:58 AEDT 2019


The purpose of this series is to activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which
moves the thread_info into task_struct.

Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages:
  - It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack
    overflows.
  - Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are leaked,
    making a number of attacks more difficult.

Changes in v16 (mpe):
 - split the prepartion patches out into smaller pieces.
 - move all TASK_SIZE related contents out of processor.h
 - fix build failures with livepatching enabled (include sched/task_stack.h)
 - Use PACA_CURRENT_TI for the offset of the thread info in paca->current.

Changes in v15:
 - switched patch 1 and 2.
 - resync patch 1 with linux/next. As memblock modifications are now fully merged in
 linux-mm tree, this patch voids as soon as linux-mm gets merged into powerpc/merge branch
 - Fixed build failure on 64le due to call to __save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() (patch 5)
 - Taken the renaming of THREAD_INFO to TASK_STACK out of the preparation patch to ease review (hence new patch 6)
 - Fixed one place where r11 (physical address of stack) was used instead of r1 to locate
 thread_info, inducing a bug when switching to r2 which is virtual address of current (patch 7)
 - Keeping physical address of current in r2 until MMU translation is reactivated (patch 11)

Changes in v14 (ie since v13):
 - Added in front a fixup patch which conflicts with this serie
 - Added a patch for using try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in stack walkers.
 - Fixed compilation failure in the preparation patch (by moving the modification
 of klp_init_thread_info() to the following patch)

Changes since v12:
 - Patch 1: Taken comment from Mike (re-introduced the 'panic' in case memblock allocation fails in setup_64.c
 - Patch 1: Added alloc_stack() function in setup_32.c to also panic in case of allocation failure.

Changes since v11:
 - Rebased on 81775f5563fa ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 'fixes' into merge")
 - Added a first patch to change memblock allocs to functions returning virtual addrs. This removes
   the memset() which were the only remaining stuff in irq_ctx_init() and exc_lvl_ctx_init() at the end.
 - dropping irq_ctx_init() and exc_lvl_ctx_init() in patch 5 (powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK)
 - A few cosmetic changes in commit log and code.

Changes since v10:
 - Rebased on 21622a0d2023 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 'fixes' into merge")
  ==> Fixed conflict in setup_32.S

Changes since v9:
 - Rebased on 183cbf93be88 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 'fixes' into merge")
  ==> Fixed conflict on xmon

Changes since v8:
 - Rebased on e589b79e40d9 ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 'fixes' into merge")
  ==> Main impact was conflicts due to commit 9a8dd708d547 ("memblock: rename memblock_alloc{_nid,_try_nid} to memblock_phys_alloc*")

Changes since v7:
 - Rebased on fb6c6ce7907d ("Automatic merge of branches 'master', 'next' and 'fixes' into merge")

Changes since v6:
 - Fixed validate_sp() to exclude NULL sp in 'regain entire stack space' patch (early crash with CONFIG_KMEMLEAK)

Changes since v5:
 - Fixed livepatch_sp setup by using end_of_stack() instead of hardcoding
 - Fixed PPC_BPF_LOAD_CPU() macro

Changes since v4:
 - Fixed a build failure on 32bits SMP when include/generated/asm-offsets.h is not
 already existing, was due to spaces instead of a tab in the Makefile

Changes since RFC v3: (based on Nick's review)
 - Renamed task_size.h to task_size_user64.h to better relate to what it contains.
 - Handling of the isolation of thread_info cpu field inside CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs moved to a separate patch.
 - Removed CURRENT_THREAD_INFO macro completely.
 - Added a guard in asm/smp.h to avoid build failure before _TASK_CPU is defined.
 - Added a patch at the end to rename 'tp' pointers to 'sp' pointers
 - Renamed 'tp' into 'sp' pointers in preparation patch when relevant
 - Fixed a few commit logs
 - Fixed checkpatch report.

Changes since RFC v2:
 - Removed the modification of names in asm-offsets
 - Created a rule in arch/powerpc/Makefile to append the offset of current->cpu in CFLAGS
 - Modified asm/smp.h to use the offset set in CFLAGS
 - Squashed the renaming of THREAD_INFO to TASK_STACK in the preparation patch
 - Moved the modification of current_pt_regs in the patch activating CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

Changes since RFC v1:
 - Removed the first patch which was modifying header inclusion order in timer
 - Modified some names in asm-offsets to avoid conflicts when including asm-offsets in C files
 - Modified asm/smp.h to avoid having to include linux/sched.h (using asm-offsets instead)
 - Moved some changes from the activation patch to the preparation patch.


Christophe Leroy (21):
  powerpc/irq: use memblock functions returning virtual address
  powerpc/32: Fix CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE for 40x/booke
  powerpc: Avoid circular header inclusion in mmu-hash.h
  powerpc: Only use task_struct 'cpu' field on SMP
  powerpc: prep stack walkers for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
  powerpc: Rename THREAD_INFO to TASK_STACK
  powerpc: call_do_[soft]irq() takes a pointer to the stack
  powerpc: Don't use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO to find the stack
  powerpc: Replace current_thread_info()->task with current
  powerpc: Update comments in preparation for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
  powerpc/64: Use task_stack_page() to initialise paca->kstack
  powerpc: Use sizeof(struct thread_info) in INIT_SP_LIMIT
  powerpc: Use linux/thread_info.h in processor.h
  powerpc: Use task_stack_page() in current_pt_regs()
  powerpc/idle/6xx: Use r1 with CURRENT_THREAD_INFO()
  powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
  powerpc: regain entire stack space
  powerpc: 'current_set' is now a table of task_struct pointers
  powerpc/32: Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO and rename TI_CPU
  powerpc/64: Replace CURRENT_THREAD_INFO with PACA_CURRENT_TI
  powerpc: clean stack pointers naming

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                          |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/Makefile                         |   7 ++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h     |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu-hash.h |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h      |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/irq.h                |  18 ++-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h          |   7 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h          | 105 ++--------------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h                |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h                |  17 ++-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_32.h       |  21 ++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_64.h       |  79 ++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  19 ---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c             |  12 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S                |  80 +++++-------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S                |  12 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_hcalls.S            |   5 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S          |  13 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S          |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S                 |  14 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S                |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S                |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S                 |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S                |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h              |  12 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S          |  16 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_6xx.S                |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3e.S             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_e500.S               |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_power4.S             |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c                     | 114 +++---------------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c                    |  28 -----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c        |   6 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S                 |  17 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c                 |  63 ++++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c            |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c                |  26 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c                |  51 ++------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c                     |  16 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c              |  29 ++++-
 .../powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_64_mprofile.S |   6 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_hmi.c              |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/mm/hash_low_32.S                 |  14 +--
 arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit32.h                  |   5 +-
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/6xx-suspend.S             |   5 +-
 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c                      |   2 +-
 47 files changed, 367 insertions(+), 507 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_32.h
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_64.h

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