linux-stable.git/arch/arc/kernel, branch linux-3.10.y

ARC: [arcompact] brown paper bag bug in unaligned access delay slot fixup

2017-06-20T12:04:18+00:00

commit a524c218bc94c705886a0e0fedeee45d1931da32 upstream.

Reported-by: Jo-Philipp Wich 
Fixes: 9aed02feae57bf7 ("ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot corner case

2017-06-20T12:04:16+00:00

commit 9aed02feae57bf7a40cb04ea0e3017cb7a998db4 upstream.

After emulating an unaligned access in delay slot of a branch, we
pretend as the delay slot never happened - so return back to actual
branch target (or next PC if branch was not taken).

Curently we did this by handling STATUS32.DE, we also need to clear the
BTA.T bit, which is disregarded when returning from original misaligned
exception, but could cause weirdness if it took the interrupt return
path (in case interrupt was acive too)

One ARC700 customer ran into this when enabling unaligned access fixup
for kernel mode accesses as well

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

arc: don't leak bits of kernel stack into coredump

2017-02-06T22:33:04+00:00

commit 7798bf2140ebcc36eafec6a4194fffd8d585d471 upstream.

On faulting sigreturn we do get SIGSEGV, all right, but anything
we'd put into pt_regs could end up in the coredump.  And since
__copy_from_user() never zeroed on arc, we'd better bugger off
on its failure without copying random uninitialized bits of
kernel stack into pt_regs...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

arc: unwind: warn only once if DW2_UNWIND is disabled

2016-08-27T09:40:30+00:00

commit 9bd54517ee86cb164c734f72ea95aeba4804f10b upstream.

If CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND is disabled every time arc_unwind_core()
gets called following message gets printed in debug console:
----------------->8---------------
CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND needs to be enabled
----------------->8---------------

That message makes sense if user indeed wants to see a backtrace or
get nice function call-graphs in perf but what if user disabled
unwinder for the purpose? Why pollute his debug console?

So instead we'll warn user about possibly missing feature once and
let him decide if that was what he or she really wanted.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

ARC: dw2 unwind: Remove falllback linear search thru FDE entries

2016-03-03T23:06:21+00:00

commit 2e22502c080f27afeab5e6f11e618fb7bc7aea53 upstream.

Fixes STAR 9000953410: "perf callgraph profiling causing RCU stalls"

| perf record -g -c 15000 -e cycles /sbin/hackbench
|
| INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
| 1: (1 GPs behind) idle=609/140000000000002/0 softirq=2914/2915 fqs=603
| Task dump for CPU 1:

in-kernel dwarf unwinder has a fast binary lookup and a fallback linear
search (which iterates thru each of ~11K entries) thus takes 2 orders of
magnitude longer (~3 million cycles vs. 2000). Routines written in hand
assembler lack dwarf info (as we don't support assembler CFI pseudo-ops
yet) fail the unwinder binary lookup, hit linear search, failing
nevertheless in the end.

However the linear search is pointless as binary lookup tables are created
from it in first place. It is impossible to have binary lookup fail while
succeed the linear search. It is pure waste of cycles thus removed by
this patch.

This manifested as RCU stalls / NMI watchdog splat when running
hackbench under perf with callgraph profiling. The triggering condition
was perf counter overflowing in routine lacking dwarf info (like memset)
leading to patheic 3 million cycle unwinder slow path and by the time it
returned new interrupts were already pending (Timer, IPI) and taken
rightaway. The original memset didn't make forward progress, system kept
accruing more interrupts and more unwinder delayes in a vicious feedback
loop, ultimately triggering the NMI diagnostic.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: signal handling robustify

2015-05-13T12:15:43+00:00

commit e4140819dadc3624accac8294881bca8a3cba4ed upstream.

A malicious signal handler / restorer can DOS the system by fudging the
user regs saved on stack, causing weird things such as sigreturn returning
to user mode PC but cpu state still being kernel mode....

Ensure that in sigreturn path status32 always has U bit; any other bogosity
(gargbage PC etc) will be taken care of by normal user mode exceptions mechanisms.

Reproducer signal handler:

    void handle_sig(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *context)
    {
	ucontext_t *uc = context;
	struct user_regs_struct *regs = &(uc->uc_mcontext.regs);

	regs->scratch.status32 = 0;
    }

Before the fix, kernel would go off to weeds like below:

    --------->8-----------
    [ARCLinux]$ ./signal-test
    Path: /signal-test
    CPU: 0 PID: 61 Comm: signal-test Not tainted 4.0.0-rc5+ #65
    task: 8f177880 ti: 5ffe6000 task.ti: 8f15c000

    [ECR   ]: 0x00220200 => Invalid Write @ 0x00000010 by insn @ 0x00010698
    [EFA   ]: 0x00000010
    [BLINK ]: 0x2007c1ee
    [ERET  ]: 0x10698
    [STAT32]: 0x00000000 :                                   <--------
    BTA: 0x00010680	 SP: 0x5ffe7e48	 FP: 0x00000000
    LPS: 0x20003c6c	LPE: 0x20003c70	LPC: 0x00000000
    ...
    --------->8-----------

Reported-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: Implement ptrace(PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA)

2014-07-28T15:00:07+00:00

commit a4b6cb735b25aa84a462a1985e3e43bebaf5beb4 upstream.

This patch adds implementation of GET_THREAD_AREA ptrace request type. This
is required by GDB to debug NPTL applications.

Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: !PREEMPT: Ensure Return to kernel mode is IRQ safe

2014-05-13T11:59:46+00:00

commit 8aa9e85adac609588eeec356e5a85059b3b819ba upstream.

There was a very small race window where resume to kernel mode from a
Exception Path (or pure kernel mode which is true for most of ARC
exceptions anyways), was not disabling interrupts in restore_regs,
clobbering the exception regs

Anton found the culprit call flow (after many sleepless nights)

| 1. we got a Trap from user land
| 2. started to service it.
| 3. While doing some stuff on user-land memory (I think it is padzero()),
|     we got a DataTlbMiss
| 4. On return from it we are taking "resume_kernel_mode" path
| 5. NEED_RESHED is not set, so we go to "return from exception" path in
|     restore regs.
| 6. there seems to be IRQ happening

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Anton Kolesov 
Cc: Francois Bedard 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Optimize away redundant IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE

2014-05-13T11:59:42+00:00

commit fce16bc35ae4a45634f3dc348d8d297a25c277cf upstream.

In the exception return path, for both U/K cases, intr are already
disabled (for various existing reasons). So when we drop down to
@restore_regs, we need not redo that.

There was subtle issue - when intr were NOT being disabled for
ret-to-kernel-but-no-preemption case - now fixed by moving the
IRQ_DISABLE further up in @resume_kernel_mode.

So what do we gain:

* Shaves off a few insn in return path.

* Eliminates the need for IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE assembler macro for ARCv2
  hence allows for entry code sharing.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Simplify branch for in-kernel preemption

2014-05-13T11:59:42+00:00

commit 147aece29b15051173eb1e767018135361cdba89 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman