[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 7/7] powerpc/64: Fix msr_check_and_set/clear MSR[EE] race

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Sat Oct 15 00:54:00 AEDT 2022


From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 0fa6831811f62cfc10415d731bcf9fde2647ad81 ]

irq soft-masking means that when Linux irqs are disabled, the MSR[EE]
value can change from 1 to 0 asynchronously: if a masked interrupt of
the PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK variety fires while irqs are disabled,
the masked handler will return with MSR[EE]=0.

This means a sequence like mtmsr(mfmsr() | MSR_FP) is racy if it can
be called with local irqs disabled, unless a hard_irq_disable has been
done.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221004051157.308999-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c     |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
index 32a18f2f49bc..3ef454f99d24 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
@@ -353,6 +353,30 @@ static inline void may_hard_irq_enable(void) { }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
 
+static inline unsigned long mtmsr_isync_irqsafe(unsigned long msr)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+	if (arch_irqs_disabled()) {
+		/*
+		 * With soft-masking, MSR[EE] can change from 1 to 0
+		 * asynchronously when irqs are disabled, and we don't want to
+		 * set MSR[EE] back to 1 here if that has happened. A race-free
+		 * way to do this is ensure EE is already 0. Another way it
+		 * could be done is with a RESTART_TABLE handler, but that's
+		 * probably overkill here.
+		 */
+		msr &= ~MSR_EE;
+		mtmsr_isync(msr);
+		irq_soft_mask_set(IRQS_ALL_DISABLED);
+		local_paca->irq_happened |= PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;
+	} else
+#endif
+		mtmsr_isync(msr);
+
+	return msr;
+}
+
+
 #define ARCH_IRQ_INIT_FLAGS	IRQ_NOREQUEST
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index cf87573e6e78..e6516c6d62bb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ unsigned long notrace msr_check_and_set(unsigned long bits)
 #endif
 
 	if (oldmsr != newmsr)
-		mtmsr_isync(newmsr);
+		newmsr = mtmsr_isync_irqsafe(newmsr);
 
 	return newmsr;
 }
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ void notrace __msr_check_and_clear(unsigned long bits)
 #endif
 
 	if (oldmsr != newmsr)
-		mtmsr_isync(newmsr);
+		mtmsr_isync_irqsafe(newmsr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__msr_check_and_clear);
 
-- 
2.35.1



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