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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2019-01-16 14:47:44 -0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2019-05-01 23:03:29 +1000
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parentpowerpc/mm/radix: Fix kernel crash when running subpage protect test (diff)
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powerpc/tm: Avoid machine crash on rt_sigreturn()
There is a kernel crash that happens if rt_sigreturn() is called inside a transactional block. This crash happens if the kernel hits an in-kernel page fault when accessing userspace memory, usually through copy_ckvsx_to_user(). A major page fault calls might_sleep() function, which can cause a task reschedule. A task reschedule (switch_to()) reclaim and recheckpoint the TM states, but, in the signal return path, the checkpointed memory was already reclaimed, thus the exception stack has MSR that points to MSR[TS]=0. When the code returns from might_sleep() and a task reschedule happened, then this task is returned with the memory recheckpointed, and CPU MSR[TS] = suspended. This means that there is a side effect at might_sleep() if it is called with CPU MSR[TS] = 0 and the task has regs->msr[TS] != 0. This side effect can cause a TM bad thing, since at the exception entrance, the stack saves MSR[TS]=0, and this is what will be used at RFID, but, the processor has MSR[TS] = Suspended, and this transition will be invalid and a TM Bad thing will be raised, causing the following crash: Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c00000000000e9ec (msr 0x8000000302a03031) tm_scratch=800000010280b033 cpu 0xc: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ff1fd70] pc: c00000000000e9ec: fast_exception_return+0x100/0x1bc lr: c000000000032948: handle_rt_signal64+0xb8/0xaf0 sp: c0000004263ebc40 msr: 8000000302a03031 current = 0xc000000415050300 paca = 0xc00000003ffc4080 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 25006, comm = sigfuz Linux version 5.0.0-rc1-00001-g3bd6e94bec12 (breno@debian) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-3)) #899 SMP Mon Jan 7 11:30:07 EST 2019 WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue enter ? for help [c0000004263ebc40] c000000000032948 handle_rt_signal64+0xb8/0xaf0 (unreliable) [c0000004263ebd30] c000000000022780 do_notify_resume+0x2f0/0x430 [c0000004263ebe20] c00000000000e844 ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74 --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 00007fffbaac400c SP (7fffeca90f40) is in userspace The solution for this problem is running the sigreturn code with regs->msr[TS] disabled, thus, avoiding hitting the side effect above. This does not seem to be a problem since regs->msr will be replaced by the ucontext value, so, it is being flushed already. In this case, it is flushed earlier. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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