[PATCH v2 11/14] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return

Rohan McLure rmclure at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jul 25 16:31:11 AEST 2022


Clear user state in gprs (assign to zero) to reduce the influence of user
registers on speculation within kernel syscall handlers. Clears occur
at the very beginning of the sc and scv 0 interrupt handlers, with
restores occurring following the execution of the syscall handler.

One function of syscall_exit_prepare is to determine when non-volatile
regs must be restored, and it still serves that purpose on 32-bit. Use
it now for determining where to find XER, CTR, CR.

Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure at linux.ibm.com>
---
V1 -> V2: Update summary
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
index 3e8a811e09c4..34167cfa5d60 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(system_call_vectored_\name)
 	ld	r2,PACATOC(r13)
 	mfcr	r12
 	li	r11,0
-	/* Can we avoid saving r3-r8 in common case? */
+	/* Save syscall parameters in r3-r8 */
 	std	r3,GPR3(r1)
 	std	r4,GPR4(r1)
 	std	r5,GPR5(r1)
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 	 * but this is the best we can do.
 	 */
 
+	/*
+	 * Zero user registers to prevent influencing speculative execution
+	 * state of kernel code.
+	 */
+	NULLIFY_GPRS(5, 12)
+	NULLIFY_NVGPRS()
+
 	/* Calling convention has r3 = orig r0, r4 = regs */
 	mr	r3,r0
 	bl	system_call_exception
@@ -138,6 +145,7 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	HMT_MEDIUM_LOW
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 
+	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	cmpdi	r3,0
 	bne	.Lsyscall_vectored_\name\()_restore_regs
 
@@ -180,7 +188,6 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 	ld	r4,_LINK(r1)
 	ld	r5,_XER(r1)
 
-	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	ld	r0,GPR0(r1)
 	mtcr	r2
 	mtctr	r3
@@ -248,7 +255,7 @@ END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
 	ld	r2,PACATOC(r13)
 	mfcr	r12
 	li	r11,0
-	/* Can we avoid saving r3-r8 in common case? */
+	/* Save syscall parameters in r3-r8 */
 	std	r3,GPR3(r1)
 	std	r4,GPR4(r1)
 	std	r5,GPR5(r1)
@@ -298,6 +305,13 @@ END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
 	wrteei	1
 #endif
 
+	/*
+	 * Zero user registers to prevent influencing speculative execution
+	 * state of kernel code.
+	 */
+	NULLIFY_GPRS(5, 12)
+	NULLIFY_NVGPRS()
+
 	/* Calling convention has r3 = orig r0, r4 = regs */
 	mr	r3,r0
 	bl	system_call_exception
@@ -340,6 +354,7 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	stdcx.	r0,0,r1			/* to clear the reservation */
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS)
 
+	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	cmpdi	r3,0
 	bne	.Lsyscall_restore_regs
 	/* Zero volatile regs that may contain sensitive kernel data */
@@ -367,7 +382,6 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 .Lsyscall_restore_regs:
 	ld	r3,_CTR(r1)
 	ld	r4,_XER(r1)
-	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	mtctr	r3
 	mtspr	SPRN_XER,r4
 	REST_GPR(0, r1)
-- 
2.34.1



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