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<title>powerpc/64/interrupt: Fix return to masked context after hard-mask irq becomes pending</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T10:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2022-09-26T05:43:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e485f6c751e0a969327336c635ca602feea117f0 ]

If a synchronous interrupt (e.g., hash fault) is taken inside an
irqs-disabled region which has MSR[EE]=1, then an asynchronous interrupt
that is PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK (e.g., PMI) is taken inside the
synchronous interrupt handler, then the synchronous interrupt will
return with MSR[EE]=1 and the asynchronous interrupt fires again.

If the asynchronous interrupt is a PMI and the original context does not
have PMIs disabled (only Linux IRQs), the asynchronous interrupt will
fire despite having the PMI marked soft pending. This can confuse the
perf code and cause warnings.

This patch changes the interrupt return so that irqs-disabled MSR[EE]=1
contexts will be returned to with MSR[EE]=0 if a PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK
interrupt has become pending in the meantime.

The longer explanation for what happens:
1. local_irq_disable()
2. Hash fault interrupt fires, do_hash_fault handler runs
3. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets IRQS_ALL_DISABLED
4. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets MSR[EE]=1
5. PMU interrupt fires, masked handler runs
6. Masked handler marks PMI pending
7. Masked handler returns with PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS set, MSR[EE]=0
8. do_hash_fault interrupt return handler runs
9. interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() clears PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS
10. interrupt returns with MSR[EE]=1
11. PMU interrupt fires, perf handler runs

Fixes: 4423eb5ae32e ("powerpc/64/interrupt: make normal synchronous interrupts enable MSR[EE] if possible")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926054305.2671436-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e485f6c751e0a969327336c635ca602feea117f0 ]

If a synchronous interrupt (e.g., hash fault) is taken inside an
irqs-disabled region which has MSR[EE]=1, then an asynchronous interrupt
that is PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK (e.g., PMI) is taken inside the
synchronous interrupt handler, then the synchronous interrupt will
return with MSR[EE]=1 and the asynchronous interrupt fires again.

If the asynchronous interrupt is a PMI and the original context does not
have PMIs disabled (only Linux IRQs), the asynchronous interrupt will
fire despite having the PMI marked soft pending. This can confuse the
perf code and cause warnings.

This patch changes the interrupt return so that irqs-disabled MSR[EE]=1
contexts will be returned to with MSR[EE]=0 if a PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK
interrupt has become pending in the meantime.

The longer explanation for what happens:
1. local_irq_disable()
2. Hash fault interrupt fires, do_hash_fault handler runs
3. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets IRQS_ALL_DISABLED
4. interrupt_enter_prepare() sets MSR[EE]=1
5. PMU interrupt fires, masked handler runs
6. Masked handler marks PMI pending
7. Masked handler returns with PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS set, MSR[EE]=0
8. do_hash_fault interrupt return handler runs
9. interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() clears PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS
10. interrupt returns with MSR[EE]=1
11. PMU interrupt fires, perf handler runs

Fixes: 4423eb5ae32e ("powerpc/64/interrupt: make normal synchronous interrupts enable MSR[EE] if possible")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926054305.2671436-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move system_call_exception() to syscall.c</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T06:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiu Jianfeng</name>
<email>xiujianfeng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-01T08:24:34+00:00</published>
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This is a lead-up patch to enable syscall stack randomization, which
uses alloca() and makes the compiler add unconditional stack canaries
on syscall entry. In order to avoid triggering needless checks and
slowing down the entry path, the feature needs to disable stack
protector at the compilation unit level as there is no general way to
control stack protector coverage with a function attribute.

So move system_call_exception() to syscall.c to avoid affecting other
functions in interrupt.c.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701082435.126596-2-xiujianfeng@huawei.com

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This is a lead-up patch to enable syscall stack randomization, which
uses alloca() and makes the compiler add unconditional stack canaries
on syscall entry. In order to avoid triggering needless checks and
slowing down the entry path, the feature needs to disable stack
protector at the compilation unit level as there is no general way to
control stack protector coverage with a function attribute.

So move system_call_exception() to syscall.c to avoid affecting other
functions in interrupt.c.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701082435.126596-2-xiujianfeng@huawei.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move C prototypes out of asm-prototypes.h</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T11:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-04T17:04:05+00:00</published>
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We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd78 ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.

A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05cb ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.

Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.

Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.

For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd78 ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.

A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05cb ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.

Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.

Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.

For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-14T14:17:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T14:17:26+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Optimise radix KVM guest entry/exit by 2x on Power9/Power10.

 - Allow firmware to tell us whether to disable the entry and uaccess
   flushes on Power10 or later CPUs.

 - Add BPF_PROBE_MEM support for 32 and 64-bit BPF jits.

 - Several fixes and improvements to our hard lockup watchdog.

 - Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on 32-bit.

 - Allow building the 64-bit Book3S kernel without hash MMU support, ie.
   Radix only.

 - Add KUAP (SMAP) support for 40x, 44x, 8xx, Book3E (64-bit).

 - Add new encodings for perf_mem_data_src.mem_hops field, and use them
   on Power10.

 - A series of small performance improvements to 64-bit interrupt entry.

 - Several commits fixing issues when building with the clang integrated
   assembler.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Alan Modra, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Ammar Faizi, Anders Roxell,
Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, David Yang, Erhard
Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Guo Ren, Hari Bathini, Jason
Wang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Brown, Minghao Chi, Nageswara R Sastry, Naresh
Kamboju, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Child,
Oliver O'Halloran, Peiwei Hu, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring,
Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tyrel Datwyler, Xiang wangx, and Yang
Guang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (240 commits)
  powerpc/xmon: Dump XIVE information for online-only processors.
  powerpc/opal: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/cacheinfo: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/sched: Remove unused TASK_SIZE_OF
  powerpc/xive: Add missing null check after calling kmalloc
  powerpc/floppy: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of sigreturning to an unaligned address
  powerpc/64s: Use EMIT_WARN_ENTRY for SRR debug warnings
  powerpc/64s: Mask NIP before checking against SRR0
  powerpc/perf: Fix spelling of "its"
  powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy plugin
  powerpc/code-patching: Replace patch_instruction() by ppc_inst_write() in selftests
  powerpc/code-patching: Move code patching selftests in its own file
  powerpc/code-patching: Move instr_is_branch_{i/b}form() in code-patching.h
  powerpc/code-patching: Move patch_exception() outside code-patching.c
  powerpc/code-patching: Use test_trampoline for prefixed patch test
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix patch_branch() return on out-of-range failure
  powerpc/code-patching: Reorganise do_patch_instruction() to ease error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix unmap_patch_area() error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix error handling in do_patch_instruction()
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Optimise radix KVM guest entry/exit by 2x on Power9/Power10.

 - Allow firmware to tell us whether to disable the entry and uaccess
   flushes on Power10 or later CPUs.

 - Add BPF_PROBE_MEM support for 32 and 64-bit BPF jits.

 - Several fixes and improvements to our hard lockup watchdog.

 - Activate HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS on 32-bit.

 - Allow building the 64-bit Book3S kernel without hash MMU support, ie.
   Radix only.

 - Add KUAP (SMAP) support for 40x, 44x, 8xx, Book3E (64-bit).

 - Add new encodings for perf_mem_data_src.mem_hops field, and use them
   on Power10.

 - A series of small performance improvements to 64-bit interrupt entry.

 - Several commits fixing issues when building with the clang integrated
   assembler.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Alan Modra, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Ammar Faizi, Anders Roxell,
Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, David Yang, Erhard
Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Guo Ren, Hari Bathini, Jason
Wang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mark Brown, Minghao Chi, Nageswara R Sastry, Naresh
Kamboju, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Child,
Oliver O'Halloran, Peiwei Hu, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring,
Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tyrel Datwyler, Xiang wangx, and Yang
Guang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (240 commits)
  powerpc/xmon: Dump XIVE information for online-only processors.
  powerpc/opal: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/cacheinfo: use default_groups in kobj_type
  powerpc/sched: Remove unused TASK_SIZE_OF
  powerpc/xive: Add missing null check after calling kmalloc
  powerpc/floppy: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of sigreturning to an unaligned address
  powerpc/64s: Use EMIT_WARN_ENTRY for SRR debug warnings
  powerpc/64s: Mask NIP before checking against SRR0
  powerpc/perf: Fix spelling of "its"
  powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy plugin
  powerpc/code-patching: Replace patch_instruction() by ppc_inst_write() in selftests
  powerpc/code-patching: Move code patching selftests in its own file
  powerpc/code-patching: Move instr_is_branch_{i/b}form() in code-patching.h
  powerpc/code-patching: Move patch_exception() outside code-patching.c
  powerpc/code-patching: Use test_trampoline for prefixed patch test
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix patch_branch() return on out-of-range failure
  powerpc/code-patching: Reorganise do_patch_instruction() to ease error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix unmap_patch_area() error handling
  powerpc/code-patching: Fix error handling in do_patch_instruction()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kuap: Add kuap_lock()</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T11:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-19T07:29:23+00:00</published>
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Add kuap_lock() and call it when entering interrupts from user.

It is called kuap_lock() as it is similar to kuap_save_and_lock()
without the save.

However book3s/32 already have a kuap_lock(). Rename it
kuap_lock_addr().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4437e2deb9f6f549f7089d45e9c6f96a7e77905a.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Add kuap_lock() and call it when entering interrupts from user.

It is called kuap_lock() as it is similar to kuap_save_and_lock()
without the save.

However book3s/32 already have a kuap_lock(). Rename it
kuap_lock_addr().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4437e2deb9f6f549f7089d45e9c6f96a7e77905a.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/32s: Do kuep_lock() and kuep_unlock() in assembly</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T11:41:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-19T07:29:17+00:00</published>
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When interrupt and syscall entries where converted to C, KUEP locking
and unlocking was also converted. It improved performance by unrolling
the loop, and allowed easily implementing boot time deactivation of
KUEP.

However, null_syscall selftest shows that KUEP is still heavy
(361 cycles with KUEP, 212 cycles without).

A way to improve more is to group 'mtsr's together, instead of
repeating 'addi' + 'mtsr' several times.

In order to do that, more registers need to be available. In C, GCC
will always be able to provide the requested number of registers, but
at the cost of saving some data on the stack, which is counter
performant here.

So let's do it in assembly, when we have full control of which
register can be used. It also has the advantage of locking earlier
and unlocking later and it helps GCC generating less tricky code.
The only drawback is to make boot time deactivation less straight
forward and require 'hand' instruction patching.

Group 'mtsr's by 4.

With this change, null_syscall selftest reports 336 cycles. Without
the change it was 361 cycles, that's a 7% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/115cb279e9b9948dfd93a065e047081c59e3a2a6.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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When interrupt and syscall entries where converted to C, KUEP locking
and unlocking was also converted. It improved performance by unrolling
the loop, and allowed easily implementing boot time deactivation of
KUEP.

However, null_syscall selftest shows that KUEP is still heavy
(361 cycles with KUEP, 212 cycles without).

A way to improve more is to group 'mtsr's together, instead of
repeating 'addi' + 'mtsr' several times.

In order to do that, more registers need to be available. In C, GCC
will always be able to provide the requested number of registers, but
at the cost of saving some data on the stack, which is counter
performant here.

So let's do it in assembly, when we have full control of which
register can be used. It also has the advantage of locking earlier
and unlocking later and it helps GCC generating less tricky code.
The only drawback is to make boot time deactivation less straight
forward and require 'hand' instruction patching.

Group 'mtsr's by 4.

With this change, null_syscall selftest reports 336 cycles. Without
the change it was 361 cycles, that's a 7% reduction.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/115cb279e9b9948dfd93a065e047081c59e3a2a6.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Snapshot thread flags</title>
<updated>2021-11-30T23:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T13:06:52+00:00</published>
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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-11-mark.rutland@arm.com

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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-11-mark.rutland@arm.com

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<title>powerpc: Avoid discarding flags in system_call_exception()</title>
<updated>2021-11-30T23:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T13:06:51+00:00</published>
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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Thus, when setting flags we must use
an atomic operation rather than a plain read-modify-write sequence, as a
plain read-modify-write may discard flags which are concurrently set by a
remote thread, e.g.

	// task A			// task B
	tmp = A-&gt;thread_info.flags;
					set_tsk_thread_flag(A, NEWFLAG_B);
	tmp |= NEWFLAG_A;
	A-&gt;thread_info.flags = tmp;

arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c's system_call_exception() sets
_TIF_RESTOREALL in the thread info flags with a read-modify-write, which
may result in other flags being discarded.

Elsewhere in the file it uses clear_bits() to atomically remove flag bits,
so use set_bits() here for consistency with those.

There may be reasons (e.g. instrumentation) that prevent the use of
set_thread_flag() and clear_thread_flag() here, which would otherwise be
preferable.

Fixes: ae7aaecc3f2f78b7 ("powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Eirik Fuller &lt;efuller@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-10-mark.rutland@arm.com

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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Thus, when setting flags we must use
an atomic operation rather than a plain read-modify-write sequence, as a
plain read-modify-write may discard flags which are concurrently set by a
remote thread, e.g.

	// task A			// task B
	tmp = A-&gt;thread_info.flags;
					set_tsk_thread_flag(A, NEWFLAG_B);
	tmp |= NEWFLAG_A;
	A-&gt;thread_info.flags = tmp;

arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c's system_call_exception() sets
_TIF_RESTOREALL in the thread info flags with a read-modify-write, which
may result in other flags being discarded.

Elsewhere in the file it uses clear_bits() to atomically remove flag bits,
so use set_bits() here for consistency with those.

There may be reasons (e.g. instrumentation) that prevent the use of
set_thread_flag() and clear_thread_flag() here, which would otherwise be
preferable.

Fixes: ae7aaecc3f2f78b7 ("powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Eirik Fuller &lt;efuller@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-10-mark.rutland@arm.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix check_return_regs_valid() false positive</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T11:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:25:31+00:00</published>
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The check_return_regs_valid() can cause a false positive if the return
regs are marked as norestart and they are an HSRR type interrupt,
because the low bit in the bottom of regs-&gt;trap causes interrupt type
matching to fail.

This can occcur for example on bare metal with a HV privileged doorbell
interrupt that causes a signal, but do_signal returns early because
get_signal() fails, and takes the "No signal to deliver" path. In this
case no signal was delivered so the return location is not changed so
return SRRs are not invalidated, yet set_trap_norestart is called, which
messes up the match. Building go-1.16.6 is known to reproduce this.

Fix it by using the TRAP() accessor which masks out the low bit.

Fixes: 6eaaf9de3599 ("powerpc/64s/interrupt: Check and fix srr_valid without crashing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026122531.3599918-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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The check_return_regs_valid() can cause a false positive if the return
regs are marked as norestart and they are an HSRR type interrupt,
because the low bit in the bottom of regs-&gt;trap causes interrupt type
matching to fail.

This can occcur for example on bare metal with a HV privileged doorbell
interrupt that causes a signal, but do_signal returns early because
get_signal() fails, and takes the "No signal to deliver" path. In this
case no signal was delivered so the return location is not changed so
return SRRs are not invalidated, yet set_trap_norestart is called, which
messes up the match. Building go-1.16.6 is known to reproduce this.

Fix it by using the TRAP() accessor which masks out the low bit.

Fixes: 6eaaf9de3599 ("powerpc/64s/interrupt: Check and fix srr_valid without crashing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026122531.3599918-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T12:34:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T10:17:17+00:00</published>
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The rfscv instruction does not work correctly with the fake-suspend mode
in POWER9, which can end up with the hypervisor restoring an incorrect
checkpoint.

Work around this by setting the _TIF_RESTOREALL flag if a system call
returns to a transaction active state, causing rfid to be used instead
of rfscv to return, which will do the right thing. The contents of the
registers are irrelevant because they will be overwritten in this case
anyway.

Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee7 ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Reported-by: Eirik Fuller &lt;efuller@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210908101718.118522-1-npiggin@gmail.com

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The rfscv instruction does not work correctly with the fake-suspend mode
in POWER9, which can end up with the hypervisor restoring an incorrect
checkpoint.

Work around this by setting the _TIF_RESTOREALL flag if a system call
returns to a transaction active state, causing rfid to be used instead
of rfscv to return, which will do the right thing. The contents of the
registers are irrelevant because they will be overwritten in this case
anyway.

Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee7 ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Reported-by: Eirik Fuller &lt;efuller@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210908101718.118522-1-npiggin@gmail.com

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