[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/64s: system call scv tabort fix for corrupt irq soft-mask state

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 02:54:17 AEST 2021


If a system call is made with a transaction active, the kernel
immediately aborts it and returns. scv system calls disable irqs even
earlier in their interrupt handler, and tabort_syscall does not fix this
up.

This can result in irq soft-mask state being messed up on the next
kernel entry, and crashing at BUG_ON(arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs)) in
the kernel exit handlers, or possibly worse.

Fix this by having tabort_syscall setting irq soft-mask back to enabled
(which requires MSR[EE] be disabled first).

Reported-by: Eirik Fuller <efuller at redhat.com>
Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee7 ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---

Tested the wrong kernel before sending v1 and missed a bug, sorry.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
index d4212d2ff0b5..9c31d65b4851 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
@@ -428,16 +428,22 @@ RESTART_TABLE(.Lsyscall_rst_start, .Lsyscall_rst_end, syscall_restart)
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
 tabort_syscall:
 _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(tabort_syscall)
-	/* Firstly we need to enable TM in the kernel */
+	/* We need to enable TM in the kernel, and disable EE (for scv) */
 	mfmsr	r10
 	li	r9, 1
 	rldimi	r10, r9, MSR_TM_LG, 63-MSR_TM_LG
+	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r9, MSR_EE)
+	andc	r10, r10, r9
 	mtmsrd	r10, 0
 
 	/* tabort, this dooms the transaction, nothing else */
 	li	r9, (TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL|TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT)
 	TABORT(R9)
 
+	/* scv has disabled irqs so must re-enable. sc just remains enabled */
+	li	r9,IRQS_ENABLED
+	stb	r9,PACAIRQSOFTMASK(r13)
+
 	/*
 	 * Return directly to userspace. We have corrupted user register state,
 	 * but userspace will never see that register state. Execution will
-- 
2.23.0



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