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<title>powerpc/tm: Always reclaim in start_thread() for exec() class syscalls</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:55:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyril Bur</name>
<email>cyrilbur@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-17T04:58:34+00:00</published>
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commit 8e96a87c5431c256feb65bcfc5aec92d9f7839b6 upstream.

Userspace can quite legitimately perform an exec() syscall with a
suspended transaction. exec() does not return to the old process, rather
it load a new one and starts that, the expectation therefore is that the
new process starts not in a transaction. Currently exec() is not treated
any differently to any other syscall which creates problems.

Firstly it could allow a new process to start with a suspended
transaction for a binary that no longer exists. This means that the
checkpointed state won't be valid and if the suspended transaction were
ever to be resumed and subsequently aborted (a possibility which is
exceedingly likely as exec()ing will likely doom the transaction) the
new process will jump to invalid state.

Secondly the incorrect attempt to keep the transactional state while
still zeroing state for the new process creates at least two TM Bad
Things. The first triggers on the rfid to return to userspace as
start_thread() has given the new process a 'clean' MSR but the suspend
will still be set in the hardware MSR. The second TM Bad Thing triggers
in __switch_to() as the processor is still transactionally suspended but
__switch_to() wants to zero the TM sprs for the new process.

This is an example of the outcome of calling exec() with a suspended
transaction. Note the first 700 is likely the first TM bad thing
decsribed earlier only the kernel can't report it as we've loaded
userspace registers. c000000000009980 is the rfid in
fast_exception_return()

  Bad kernel stack pointer 3fffcfa1a370 at c000000000009980
  Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
  CPU: 0 PID: 2006 Comm: tm-execed Not tainted
  NIP: c000000000009980 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c00000003ffefd40 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted
  MSR: 8000000300201031 &lt;SF,ME,IR,DR,LE,TM[SE]&gt;  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000000098b4 SOFTE: 0
  PACATMSCRATCH: b00000010000d033
  GPR00: 0000000000000000 00003fffcfa1a370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR12: 00003fff966611c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  NIP [c000000000009980] fast_exception_return+0xb0/0xb8
  LR [0000000000000000]           (null)
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  f84d0278 e9a100d8 7c7b03a6 e84101a0 7c4ff120 e8410170 7c5a03a6 e8010070
  e8410080 e8610088 e8810090 e8210078 &lt;4c000024&gt; 48000000 e8610178 88ed023b

  Kernel BUG at c000000000043e80 [verbose debug info unavailable]
  Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000043e80 (msr 0x201033)
  Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#2]
  CPU: 0 PID: 2006 Comm: tm-execed Tainted: G      D
  task: c0000000fbea6d80 ti: c00000003ffec000 task.ti: c0000000fb7ec000
  NIP: c000000000043e80 LR: c000000000015a24 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c00000003ffef7e0 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G      D
  MSR: 8000000300201033 &lt;SF,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]&gt;  CR: 28002828  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000015a20 SOFTE: 0
  PACATMSCRATCH: b00000010000d033
  GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000003ffefa60 c000000000db5500 c0000000fbead000
  GPR04: 8000000300001033 2222222222222222 2222222222222222 00000000ff160000
  GPR08: 0000000000000000 800000010000d033 c0000000fb7e3ea0 c00000000fe00004
  GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000fe00000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000fbea7410 00000000ff160000
  GPR24: c0000000ffe1f600 c0000000fbea8700 c0000000fbea8700 c0000000fbead000
  GPR28: c000000000e20198 c0000000fbea6d80 c0000000fbeab680 c0000000fbea6d80
  NIP [c000000000043e80] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
  LR [c000000000015a24] __switch_to+0x1f4/0x420
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
  4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 &lt;7c0223a6&gt; e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020

This fixes CVE-2016-5828.

Fixes: bc2a9408fa65 ("powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8e96a87c5431c256feb65bcfc5aec92d9f7839b6 upstream.

Userspace can quite legitimately perform an exec() syscall with a
suspended transaction. exec() does not return to the old process, rather
it load a new one and starts that, the expectation therefore is that the
new process starts not in a transaction. Currently exec() is not treated
any differently to any other syscall which creates problems.

Firstly it could allow a new process to start with a suspended
transaction for a binary that no longer exists. This means that the
checkpointed state won't be valid and if the suspended transaction were
ever to be resumed and subsequently aborted (a possibility which is
exceedingly likely as exec()ing will likely doom the transaction) the
new process will jump to invalid state.

Secondly the incorrect attempt to keep the transactional state while
still zeroing state for the new process creates at least two TM Bad
Things. The first triggers on the rfid to return to userspace as
start_thread() has given the new process a 'clean' MSR but the suspend
will still be set in the hardware MSR. The second TM Bad Thing triggers
in __switch_to() as the processor is still transactionally suspended but
__switch_to() wants to zero the TM sprs for the new process.

This is an example of the outcome of calling exec() with a suspended
transaction. Note the first 700 is likely the first TM bad thing
decsribed earlier only the kernel can't report it as we've loaded
userspace registers. c000000000009980 is the rfid in
fast_exception_return()

  Bad kernel stack pointer 3fffcfa1a370 at c000000000009980
  Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
  CPU: 0 PID: 2006 Comm: tm-execed Not tainted
  NIP: c000000000009980 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c00000003ffefd40 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted
  MSR: 8000000300201031 &lt;SF,ME,IR,DR,LE,TM[SE]&gt;  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000000098b4 SOFTE: 0
  PACATMSCRATCH: b00000010000d033
  GPR00: 0000000000000000 00003fffcfa1a370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR12: 00003fff966611c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  NIP [c000000000009980] fast_exception_return+0xb0/0xb8
  LR [0000000000000000]           (null)
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  f84d0278 e9a100d8 7c7b03a6 e84101a0 7c4ff120 e8410170 7c5a03a6 e8010070
  e8410080 e8610088 e8810090 e8210078 &lt;4c000024&gt; 48000000 e8610178 88ed023b

  Kernel BUG at c000000000043e80 [verbose debug info unavailable]
  Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000043e80 (msr 0x201033)
  Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#2]
  CPU: 0 PID: 2006 Comm: tm-execed Tainted: G      D
  task: c0000000fbea6d80 ti: c00000003ffec000 task.ti: c0000000fb7ec000
  NIP: c000000000043e80 LR: c000000000015a24 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c00000003ffef7e0 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G      D
  MSR: 8000000300201033 &lt;SF,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]&gt;  CR: 28002828  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000015a20 SOFTE: 0
  PACATMSCRATCH: b00000010000d033
  GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000003ffefa60 c000000000db5500 c0000000fbead000
  GPR04: 8000000300001033 2222222222222222 2222222222222222 00000000ff160000
  GPR08: 0000000000000000 800000010000d033 c0000000fb7e3ea0 c00000000fe00004
  GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000fe00000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000fbea7410 00000000ff160000
  GPR24: c0000000ffe1f600 c0000000fbea8700 c0000000fbea8700 c0000000fbead000
  GPR28: c000000000e20198 c0000000fbea6d80 c0000000fbeab680 c0000000fbea6d80
  NIP [c000000000043e80] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
  LR [c000000000015a24] __switch_to+0x1f4/0x420
  Call Trace:
  Instruction dump:
  7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
  4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 &lt;7c0223a6&gt; e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020

This fixes CVE-2016-5828.

Fixes: bc2a9408fa65 ("powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur &lt;cyrilbur@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T05:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T04:44:45+00:00</published>
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commit 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Disable IRQ in tm_recheckpoint</title>
<updated>2014-05-13T11:32:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-04T09:19:48+00:00</published>
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commit e6b8fd028b584ffca7a7255b8971f254932c9fce upstream.

We can't take an IRQ when we're about to do a trechkpt as our GPR state is set
to user GPR values.

We've hit this when running some IBM Java stress tests in the lab resulting in
the following dump:

  cpu 0x3f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007eb3d40]
      pc: c000000000050074: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
      lr: 00000000b52a8184
      sp: ac57d360
     msr: 8000000100201030
    current = 0xc00000002c500000
    paca    = 0xc000000007dbfc00     softe: 0     irq_happened: 0x00
      pid   = 34535, comm = Pooled Thread #
  R00 = 00000000b52a8184   R16 = 00000000b3e48fda
  R01 = 00000000ac57d360   R17 = 00000000ade79bd8
  R02 = 00000000ac586930   R18 = 000000000fac9bcc
  R03 = 00000000ade60000   R19 = 00000000ac57f930
  R04 = 00000000f6624918   R20 = 00000000ade79be8
  R05 = 00000000f663f238   R21 = 00000000ac218a54
  R06 = 0000000000000002   R22 = 000000000f956280
  R07 = 0000000000000008   R23 = 000000000000007e
  R08 = 000000000000000a   R24 = 000000000000000c
  R09 = 00000000b6e69160   R25 = 00000000b424cf00
  R10 = 0000000000000181   R26 = 00000000f66256d4
  R11 = 000000000f365ec0   R27 = 00000000b6fdcdd0
  R12 = 00000000f66400f0   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = 00000000ada71900   R29 = 00000000ade5a300
  R14 = 00000000ac2185a8   R30 = 00000000f663f238
  R15 = 0000000000000004   R31 = 00000000f6624918
  pc  = c000000000050074 restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
  cfar= c00000000004fe28 dont_restore_vec+0x1c/0x1a4
  lr  = 00000000b52a8184
  msr = 8000000100201030   cr  = 24804888
  ctr = 0000000000000000   xer = 0000000000000000   trap =  700

This moves tm_recheckpoint to a C function and moves the tm_restore_sprs into
that function.  It then adds IRQ disabling over the trechkpt critical section.
It also sets the TEXASR FS in the signals code to ensure this is never set now
that we explictly write the TM sprs in tm_recheckpoint.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e6b8fd028b584ffca7a7255b8971f254932c9fce upstream.

We can't take an IRQ when we're about to do a trechkpt as our GPR state is set
to user GPR values.

We've hit this when running some IBM Java stress tests in the lab resulting in
the following dump:

  cpu 0x3f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007eb3d40]
      pc: c000000000050074: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
      lr: 00000000b52a8184
      sp: ac57d360
     msr: 8000000100201030
    current = 0xc00000002c500000
    paca    = 0xc000000007dbfc00     softe: 0     irq_happened: 0x00
      pid   = 34535, comm = Pooled Thread #
  R00 = 00000000b52a8184   R16 = 00000000b3e48fda
  R01 = 00000000ac57d360   R17 = 00000000ade79bd8
  R02 = 00000000ac586930   R18 = 000000000fac9bcc
  R03 = 00000000ade60000   R19 = 00000000ac57f930
  R04 = 00000000f6624918   R20 = 00000000ade79be8
  R05 = 00000000f663f238   R21 = 00000000ac218a54
  R06 = 0000000000000002   R22 = 000000000f956280
  R07 = 0000000000000008   R23 = 000000000000007e
  R08 = 000000000000000a   R24 = 000000000000000c
  R09 = 00000000b6e69160   R25 = 00000000b424cf00
  R10 = 0000000000000181   R26 = 00000000f66256d4
  R11 = 000000000f365ec0   R27 = 00000000b6fdcdd0
  R12 = 00000000f66400f0   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = 00000000ada71900   R29 = 00000000ade5a300
  R14 = 00000000ac2185a8   R30 = 00000000f663f238
  R15 = 0000000000000004   R31 = 00000000f6624918
  pc  = c000000000050074 restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
  cfar= c00000000004fe28 dont_restore_vec+0x1c/0x1a4
  lr  = 00000000b52a8184
  msr = 8000000100201030   cr  = 24804888
  ctr = 0000000000000000   xer = 0000000000000000   trap =  700

This moves tm_recheckpoint to a C function and moves the tm_restore_sprs into
that function.  It then adds IRQ disabling over the trechkpt critical section.
It also sets the TEXASR FS in the signals code to ensure this is never set now
that we explictly write the TM sprs in tm_recheckpoint.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T02:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T03:21:40+00:00</published>
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	&lt;boom&gt;

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto &lt;azanella@br.ibm.com&gt;
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix hw breakpoints on !HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT configurations</title>
<updated>2014-01-29T05:58:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-21T22:24:02+00:00</published>
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This fixes a logic error that caused a failure to update the hw breakpoint
registers when not using the hw-breakpoint interface.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This fixes a logic error that caused a failure to update the hw breakpoint
registers when not using the hw-breakpoint interface.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T05:11:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1b17366d695c8ab03f98d0155357e97a427e1dce'/>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "So here's my next branch for powerpc.  A bit late as I was on vacation
  last week.  It's mostly the same stuff that was in next already, I
  just added two patches today which are the wiring up of lockref for
  powerpc, which for some reason fell through the cracks last time and
  is trivial.

  The highlights are, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes:

   - Reworked Machine Check handling on kernels running without a
     hypervisor (or acting as a hypervisor).  Provides hooks to handle
     some errors in real mode such as TLB errors, handle SLB errors,
     etc...

   - Support for retrieving memory error information from the service
     processor on IBM servers running without a hypervisor and routing
     them to the memory poison infrastructure.

   - _PAGE_NUMA support on server processors

   - 32-bit BookE relocatable kernel support

   - FSL e6500 hardware tablewalk support

   - A bunch of new/revived board support

   - FSL e6500 deeper idle states and altivec powerdown support

  You'll notice a generic mm change here, it has been acked by the
  relevant authorities and is a pre-req for our _PAGE_NUMA support"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (121 commits)
  powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked()
  powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
  powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
  powerpc/eeh: Escalate error on non-existing PE
  powerpc/eeh: Handle multiple EEH errors
  powerpc: Fix transactional FP/VMX/VSX unavailable handlers
  powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel
  powerpc: Reclaim two unused thread_info flag bits
  powerpc: Fix races with irq_work
  Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
  pseries/cpuidle: Remove redundant call to ppc64_runlatch_off() in cpu idle routines
  powerpc: Make add_system_ram_resources() __init
  powerpc: add SATA_MV to ppc64_defconfig
  powerpc/powernv: Increase candidate fw image size
  powerpc: Add debug checks to catch invalid cpu-to-node mappings
  powerpc: Fix the setup of CPU-to-Node mappings during CPU online
  powerpc/iommu: Don't detach device without IOMMU group
  powerpc/eeh: Hotplug improvement
  powerpc/eeh: Call opal_pci_reinit() on powernv for restoring config space
  powerpc/eeh: Add restore_config operation
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'scott/next' into next</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T03:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T03:22:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fac515db45207718168cb55ca4d0a390e43b61af'/>
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<content type='text'>
Freescale updates from Scott:

&lt;&lt;
Highlights include 32-bit booke relocatable support, e6500 hardware
tablewalk support, various e500 SPE fixes, some new/revived boards, and
e6500 deeper idle and altivec powerdown modes.
&gt;&gt;
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<pre>
Freescale updates from Scott:

&lt;&lt;
Highlights include 32-bit booke relocatable support, e6500 hardware
tablewalk support, various e500 SPE fixes, some new/revived boards, and
e6500 deeper idle and altivec powerdown modes.
&gt;&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:59:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T04:56:29+00:00</published>
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Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Delete non-required instances of include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:46:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-09T05:44:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c141611fb1ee2cfc374cf9be5327e97f361c4bed'/>
<id>c141611fb1ee2cfc374cf9be5327e97f361c4bed</id>
<content type='text'>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

The one instance where we add an include for init.h covers off
a case where that file was implicitly getting it from another
header which itself didn't need it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include &lt;linux/init.h&gt;.  Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.

The one instance where we add an include for init.h covers off
a case where that file was implicitly getting it from another
header which itself didn't need it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix exception clearing in e500 SPE float emulation</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T00:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-10T23:07:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=640e922501103aaf2e0abb4cf4de5d49fa8342f7'/>
<id>640e922501103aaf2e0abb4cf4de5d49fa8342f7</id>
<content type='text'>
The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &amp;= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
&lt;fenv.h&gt; functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The e500 SPE floating-point emulation code clears existing exceptions
(__FPU_FPSCR &amp;= ~FP_EX_MASK;) before ORing in the exceptions from the
emulated operation.  However, these exception bits are the "sticky",
cumulative exception bits, and should only be cleared by the user
program setting SPEFSCR, not implicitly by any floating-point
instruction (whether executed purely by the hardware or emulated).
The spurious clearing of these bits shows up as missing exceptions in
glibc testing.

Fixing this, however, is not as simple as just not clearing the bits,
because while the bits may be from previous floating-point operations
(in which case they should not be cleared), the processor can also set
the sticky bits itself before the interrupt for an exception occurs,
and this can happen in cases when IEEE 754 semantics are that the
sticky bit should not be set.  Specifically, the "invalid" sticky bit
is set in various cases with non-finite operands, where IEEE 754
semantics do not involve raising such an exception, and the
"underflow" sticky bit is set in cases of exact underflow, whereas
IEEE 754 semantics are that this flag is set only for inexact
underflow.  Thus, for correct emulation the kernel needs to know the
setting of these two sticky bits before the instruction being
emulated.

When a floating-point operation raises an exception, the kernel can
note the state of the sticky bits immediately afterwards.  Some
&lt;fenv.h&gt; functions that affect the state of these bits, such as
fesetenv and feholdexcept, need to use prctl with PR_GET_FPEXC and
PR_SET_FPEXC anyway, and so it is natural to record the state of those
bits during that call into the kernel and so avoid any need for a
separate call into the kernel to inform it of a change to those bits.
Thus, the interface I chose to use (in this patch and the glibc port)
is that one of those prctl calls must be made after any userspace
change to those sticky bits, other than through a floating-point
operation that traps into the kernel anyway.  feclearexcept and
fesetexceptflag duly make those calls, which would not be required
were it not for this issue.

The previous EGLIBC port, and the uClibc code copied from it, is
fundamentally broken as regards any use of prctl for floating-point
exceptions because it didn't use the PR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE bit in its
prctl calls (and did various worse things, such as passing a pointer
when prctl expected an integer).  If you avoid anything where prctl is
used, the clearing of sticky bits still means it will never give
anything approximating correct exception semantics with existing
kernels.  I don't believe the patch makes things any worse for
existing code that doesn't try to inform the kernel of changes to
sticky bits - such code may get incorrect exceptions in some cases,
but it would have done so anyway in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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