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<title>powerpc: Fix is_kvm_guest() / kvm_para_available()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:07:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2021-06-23T13:05:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 95839225639ba7c3d8d7231b542728dcf222bf2d ]

Commit a21d1becaa3f ("powerpc: Reintroduce is_kvm_guest() as a fast-path
check") added is_kvm_guest() and changed kvm_para_available() to use it.

is_kvm_guest() checks a static key, kvm_guest, and that static key is
set in check_kvm_guest().

The problem is check_kvm_guest() is only called on pseries, and even
then only in some configurations. That means is_kvm_guest() always
returns false on all non-pseries and some pseries depending on
configuration. That's a bug.

For PR KVM guests this is noticable because they no longer do live
patching of themselves, which can be detected by the omission of a
message in dmesg such as:

  KVM: Live patching for a fast VM worked

To fix it make check_kvm_guest() an initcall, to ensure it's always
called at boot. It needs to be core so that it runs before
kvm_guest_init() which is postcore. To be an initcall it needs to return
int, where 0 means success, so update that.

We still call it manually in pSeries_smp_probe(), because that runs
before init calls are run.

Fixes: a21d1becaa3f ("powerpc: Reintroduce is_kvm_guest() as a fast-path check")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623130514.2543232-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 95839225639ba7c3d8d7231b542728dcf222bf2d ]

Commit a21d1becaa3f ("powerpc: Reintroduce is_kvm_guest() as a fast-path
check") added is_kvm_guest() and changed kvm_para_available() to use it.

is_kvm_guest() checks a static key, kvm_guest, and that static key is
set in check_kvm_guest().

The problem is check_kvm_guest() is only called on pseries, and even
then only in some configurations. That means is_kvm_guest() always
returns false on all non-pseries and some pseries depending on
configuration. That's a bug.

For PR KVM guests this is noticable because they no longer do live
patching of themselves, which can be detected by the omission of a
message in dmesg such as:

  KVM: Live patching for a fast VM worked

To fix it make check_kvm_guest() an initcall, to ensure it's always
called at boot. It needs to be core so that it runs before
kvm_guest_init() which is postcore. To be an initcall it needs to return
int, where 0 means success, so update that.

We still call it manually in pSeries_smp_probe(), because that runs
before init calls are run.

Fixes: a21d1becaa3f ("powerpc: Reintroduce is_kvm_guest() as a fast-path check")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623130514.2543232-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/64s: Fix copy-paste data exposure into newly created tasks</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:07:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-22T05:30:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f35d2f249ef05b9671e7898f09ad89aa78f99122 ]

copy-paste contains implicit "copy buffer" state that can contain
arbitrary user data (if the user process executes a copy instruction).
This could be snooped by another process if a context switch hits while
the state is live. So cp_abort is executed on context switch to clear
out possible sensitive data and prevent the leak.

cp_abort is done after the low level _switch(), which means it is never
reached by newly created tasks, so they could snoop on this buffer
between their first and second context switch.

Fix this by doing the cp_abort before calling _switch. Add some
comments which should make the issue harder to miss.

Fixes: 07d2a628bc000 ("powerpc/64s: Avoid cpabort in context switch when 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/20210622053036.474678-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f35d2f249ef05b9671e7898f09ad89aa78f99122 ]

copy-paste contains implicit "copy buffer" state that can contain
arbitrary user data (if the user process executes a copy instruction).
This could be snooped by another process if a context switch hits while
the state is live. So cp_abort is executed on context switch to clear
out possible sensitive data and prevent the leak.

cp_abort is done after the low level _switch(), which means it is never
reached by newly created tasks, so they could snoop on this buffer
between their first and second context switch.

Fix this by doing the cp_abort before calling _switch. Add some
comments which should make the issue harder to miss.

Fixes: 07d2a628bc000 ("powerpc/64s: Avoid cpabort in context switch when 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/20210622053036.474678-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:07:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-23T04:12:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bab26238bbd44d5a4687c0a64fd2c7f2755ea937 ]

printk_safe_flush_on_panic() has special lock breaking code for the case
where we panic()ed with the console lock held. It relies on panic IPI
causing other CPUs to mark themselves offline.

Do as most other architectures do.

This effectively reverts commit de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do
not offline stopped CPUs"), unfortunately it may result in some false
positive warnings, but the alternative is more situations where we can
crash without getting messages out.

Fixes: de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline stopped CPUs")
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/20210623041245.865134-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bab26238bbd44d5a4687c0a64fd2c7f2755ea937 ]

printk_safe_flush_on_panic() has special lock breaking code for the case
where we panic()ed with the console lock held. It relies on panic IPI
causing other CPUs to mark themselves offline.

Do as most other architectures do.

This effectively reverts commit de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do
not offline stopped CPUs"), unfortunately it may result in some false
positive warnings, but the alternative is more situations where we can
crash without getting messages out.

Fixes: de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline stopped CPUs")
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/20210623041245.865134-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Fix machine check reporting of async store errors</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T14:03:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3729e0ec59a20825bd4c8c70996b2df63915e1dd ]

POWER9 and POWER10 asynchronous machine checks due to stores have their
cause reported in SRR1 but SRR1[42] is set, which in other cases
indicates DSISR cause.

Check for these cases and clear SRR1[42], so the cause matching uses
the i-side (SRR1) table.

Fixes: 7b9f71f974a1 ("powerpc/64s: POWER9 machine check handler")
Fixes: 201220bb0e8c ("powerpc/powernv: Machine check handler for POWER10")
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/20210517140355.2325406-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3729e0ec59a20825bd4c8c70996b2df63915e1dd ]

POWER9 and POWER10 asynchronous machine checks due to stores have their
cause reported in SRR1 but SRR1[42] is set, which in other cases
indicates DSISR cause.

Check for these cases and clear SRR1[42], so the cause matching uses
the i-side (SRR1) table.

Fixes: 7b9f71f974a1 ("powerpc/64s: POWER9 machine check handler")
Fixes: 201220bb0e8c ("powerpc/powernv: Machine check handler for POWER10")
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/20210517140355.2325406-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T09:46:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/stacktrace: Fix spurious "stale" traces in raise_backtrace_ipi()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-25T06:28:41+00:00</published>
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commit 7c6986ade69e3c81bac831645bc72109cd798a80 upstream.

In raise_backtrace_ipi() we iterate through the cpumask of CPUs, sending
each an IPI asking them to do a backtrace, but we don't wait for the
backtrace to happen.

We then iterate through the CPU mask again, and if any CPU hasn't done
the backtrace and cleared itself from the mask, we print a trace on its
behalf, noting that the trace may be "stale".

This works well enough when a CPU is not responding, because in that
case it doesn't receive the IPI and the sending CPU is left to print the
trace. But when all CPUs are responding we are left with a race between
the sending and receiving CPUs, if the sending CPU wins the race then it
will erroneously print a trace.

This leads to spurious "stale" traces from the sending CPU, which can
then be interleaved messily with the receiving CPU, note the CPU
numbers, eg:

  [ 1658.929157][    C7] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
  [ 1658.929223][    C7] Sending NMI from CPU 7 to CPUs 1:
  [ 1658.929303][    C1] NMI backtrace for cpu 1
  [ 1658.929303][    C7] CPU 1 didn't respond to backtrace IPI, inspecting paca.
  [ 1658.929362][    C1] CPU: 1 PID: 325 Comm: kworker/1:1H Tainted: G        W   E     5.13.0-rc2+ #46
  [ 1658.929405][    C7] irq_soft_mask: 0x01 in_mce: 0 in_nmi: 0 current: 325 (kworker/1:1H)
  [ 1658.929465][    C1] Workqueue: events_highpri test_work_fn [test_lockup]
  [ 1658.929549][    C7] Back trace of paca-&gt;saved_r1 (0xc0000000057fb400) (possibly stale):
  [ 1658.929592][    C1] NIP:  c00000000002cf50 LR: c008000000820178 CTR: c00000000002cfa0

To fix it, change the logic so that the sending CPU waits 5s for the
receiving CPU to print its trace. If the receiving CPU prints its trace
successfully then the sending CPU just continues, avoiding any spurious
"stale" trace.

This has the added benefit of allowing all CPUs to print their traces in
order and avoids any interleaving of their output.

Fixes: 5cc05910f26e ("powerpc/64s: Wire up arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reported-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210625140408.3351173-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7c6986ade69e3c81bac831645bc72109cd798a80 upstream.

In raise_backtrace_ipi() we iterate through the cpumask of CPUs, sending
each an IPI asking them to do a backtrace, but we don't wait for the
backtrace to happen.

We then iterate through the CPU mask again, and if any CPU hasn't done
the backtrace and cleared itself from the mask, we print a trace on its
behalf, noting that the trace may be "stale".

This works well enough when a CPU is not responding, because in that
case it doesn't receive the IPI and the sending CPU is left to print the
trace. But when all CPUs are responding we are left with a race between
the sending and receiving CPUs, if the sending CPU wins the race then it
will erroneously print a trace.

This leads to spurious "stale" traces from the sending CPU, which can
then be interleaved messily with the receiving CPU, note the CPU
numbers, eg:

  [ 1658.929157][    C7] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
  [ 1658.929223][    C7] Sending NMI from CPU 7 to CPUs 1:
  [ 1658.929303][    C1] NMI backtrace for cpu 1
  [ 1658.929303][    C7] CPU 1 didn't respond to backtrace IPI, inspecting paca.
  [ 1658.929362][    C1] CPU: 1 PID: 325 Comm: kworker/1:1H Tainted: G        W   E     5.13.0-rc2+ #46
  [ 1658.929405][    C7] irq_soft_mask: 0x01 in_mce: 0 in_nmi: 0 current: 325 (kworker/1:1H)
  [ 1658.929465][    C1] Workqueue: events_highpri test_work_fn [test_lockup]
  [ 1658.929549][    C7] Back trace of paca-&gt;saved_r1 (0xc0000000057fb400) (possibly stale):
  [ 1658.929592][    C1] NIP:  c00000000002cf50 LR: c008000000820178 CTR: c00000000002cfa0

To fix it, change the logic so that the sending CPU waits 5s for the
receiving CPU to print its trace. If the receiving CPU prints its trace
successfully then the sending CPU just continues, avoiding any spurious
"stale" trace.

This has the added benefit of allowing all CPUs to print their traces in
order and avoids any interleaving of their output.

Fixes: 5cc05910f26e ("powerpc/64s: Wire up arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reported-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210625140408.3351173-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.13-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2021-06-19T23:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-19T23:50:23+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Fix initrd corruption caused by our recent change to use relative jump
  labels.

  Fix a crash using perf record on systems without a hardware PMU
  backend.

  Rework our 64-bit signal handling slighty to make it more closely
  match the old behaviour, after the recent change to use unsafe user
  accessors.

  Thanks to Anastasia Kovaleva, Athira Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, Daniel
  Axtens, Greg Kurz, and Roman Bolshakov"

* tag 'powerpc-5.13-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/perf: Fix crash in perf_instruction_pointer() when ppmu is not set
  powerpc: Fix initrd corruption with relative jump labels
  powerpc/signal64: Copy siginfo before changing regs-&gt;nip
  powerpc/mem: Add back missing header to fix 'no previous prototype' error
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Fix initrd corruption caused by our recent change to use relative jump
  labels.

  Fix a crash using perf record on systems without a hardware PMU
  backend.

  Rework our 64-bit signal handling slighty to make it more closely
  match the old behaviour, after the recent change to use unsafe user
  accessors.

  Thanks to Anastasia Kovaleva, Athira Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, Daniel
  Axtens, Greg Kurz, and Roman Bolshakov"

* tag 'powerpc-5.13-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/perf: Fix crash in perf_instruction_pointer() when ppmu is not set
  powerpc: Fix initrd corruption with relative jump labels
  powerpc/signal64: Copy siginfo before changing regs-&gt;nip
  powerpc/mem: Add back missing header to fix 'no previous prototype' error
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<title>powerpc/signal64: Copy siginfo before changing regs-&gt;nip</title>
<updated>2021-06-14T12:14:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2021-06-08T13:46:05+00:00</published>
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In commit 96d7a4e06fab ("powerpc/signal64: Rewrite handle_rt_signal64()
to minimise uaccess switches") the 64-bit signal code was rearranged to
use user_write_access_begin/end().

As part of that change the call to copy_siginfo_to_user() was moved
later in the function, so that it could be done after the
user_write_access_end().

In particular it was moved after we modify regs-&gt;nip to point to the
signal trampoline. That means if copy_siginfo_to_user() fails we exit
handle_rt_signal64() with an error but with regs-&gt;nip modified, whereas
previously we would not modify regs-&gt;nip until the copy succeeded.

Returning an error from signal delivery but with regs-&gt;nip updated
leaves the process in a sort of half-delivered state. We do immediately
force a SEGV in signal_setup_done(), called from do_signal(), so the
process should never run in the half-delivered state.

However that SEGV is not delivered until we've gone around to
do_notify_resume() again, so it's possible some tracing could observe
the half-delivered state.

There are other cases where we fail signal delivery with regs partly
updated, eg. the write to newsp and SA_SIGINFO, but the latter at least
is very unlikely to fail as it reads back from the frame we just wrote
to.

Looking at other arches they seem to be more careful about leaving regs
unchanged until the copy operations have succeeded, and in general that
seems like good hygenie.

So although the current behaviour is not cleary buggy, it's also not
clearly correct. So move the call to copy_siginfo_to_user() up prior to
the modification of regs-&gt;nip, which is closer to the old behaviour, and
easier to reason about.

Fixes: 96d7a4e06fab ("powerpc/signal64: Rewrite handle_rt_signal64() to minimise uaccess switches")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608134605.2783677-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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In commit 96d7a4e06fab ("powerpc/signal64: Rewrite handle_rt_signal64()
to minimise uaccess switches") the 64-bit signal code was rearranged to
use user_write_access_begin/end().

As part of that change the call to copy_siginfo_to_user() was moved
later in the function, so that it could be done after the
user_write_access_end().

In particular it was moved after we modify regs-&gt;nip to point to the
signal trampoline. That means if copy_siginfo_to_user() fails we exit
handle_rt_signal64() with an error but with regs-&gt;nip modified, whereas
previously we would not modify regs-&gt;nip until the copy succeeded.

Returning an error from signal delivery but with regs-&gt;nip updated
leaves the process in a sort of half-delivered state. We do immediately
force a SEGV in signal_setup_done(), called from do_signal(), so the
process should never run in the half-delivered state.

However that SEGV is not delivered until we've gone around to
do_notify_resume() again, so it's possible some tracing could observe
the half-delivered state.

There are other cases where we fail signal delivery with regs partly
updated, eg. the write to newsp and SA_SIGINFO, but the latter at least
is very unlikely to fail as it reads back from the frame we just wrote
to.

Looking at other arches they seem to be more careful about leaving regs
unchanged until the copy operations have succeeded, and in general that
seems like good hygenie.

So although the current behaviour is not cleary buggy, it's also not
clearly correct. So move the call to copy_siginfo_to_user() up prior to
the modification of regs-&gt;nip, which is closer to the old behaviour, and
easier to reason about.

Fixes: 96d7a4e06fab ("powerpc/signal64: Rewrite handle_rt_signal64() to minimise uaccess switches")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210608134605.2783677-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.13-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2021-06-06T19:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-06T19:39:36+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Fix our KVM reverse map real-mode handling since we enabled huge
  vmalloc (in some configurations).

  Revert a recent change to our IOMMU code which broke some devices.

  Fix KVM handling of FSCR on P7/P8, which could have possibly let a
  guest crash it's Qemu.

  Fix kprobes validation of prefixed instructions across page boundary.

  Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Christophe Leroy, Fabiano Rosas,
  Frederic Barrat, Naveen N. Rao, and Nicholas Piggin"

* tag 'powerpc-5.13-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  Revert "powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save host FSCR in the P7/8 path
  powerpc: Fix reverse map real-mode address lookup with huge vmalloc
  powerpc/kprobes: Fix validation of prefixed instructions across page boundary
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Fix our KVM reverse map real-mode handling since we enabled huge
  vmalloc (in some configurations).

  Revert a recent change to our IOMMU code which broke some devices.

  Fix KVM handling of FSCR on P7/P8, which could have possibly let a
  guest crash it's Qemu.

  Fix kprobes validation of prefixed instructions across page boundary.

  Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Christophe Leroy, Fabiano Rosas,
  Frederic Barrat, Naveen N. Rao, and Nicholas Piggin"

* tag 'powerpc-5.13-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  Revert "powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save host FSCR in the P7/8 path
  powerpc: Fix reverse map real-mode address lookup with huge vmalloc
  powerpc/kprobes: Fix validation of prefixed instructions across page boundary
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<title>Revert "powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs"</title>
<updated>2021-06-01T01:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Barrat</name>
<email>fbarrat@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-26T14:45:40+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 3c0468d4451eb6b4f6604370639f163f9637a479.

That commit was breaking alignment guarantees for the DMA address when
allocating coherent mappings, as described in
Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst

It was also noticed by Mellanox' driver:
[ 1515.763621] mlx5_core c002:01:00.0: mlx5_frag_buf_alloc_node:146:(pid 13402): unexpected map alignment: 0x0800000000c61000, page_shift=16
[ 1515.763635] mlx5_core c002:01:00.0: mlx5_cqwq_create:181:(pid
13402): mlx5_frag_buf_alloc_node() failed, -12

Fixes: 3c0468d4451e ("powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for  IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526144540.117795-1-fbarrat@linux.ibm.com

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This reverts commit 3c0468d4451eb6b4f6604370639f163f9637a479.

That commit was breaking alignment guarantees for the DMA address when
allocating coherent mappings, as described in
Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst

It was also noticed by Mellanox' driver:
[ 1515.763621] mlx5_core c002:01:00.0: mlx5_frag_buf_alloc_node:146:(pid 13402): unexpected map alignment: 0x0800000000c61000, page_shift=16
[ 1515.763635] mlx5_core c002:01:00.0: mlx5_cqwq_create:181:(pid
13402): mlx5_frag_buf_alloc_node() failed, -12

Fixes: 3c0468d4451e ("powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for  IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526144540.117795-1-fbarrat@linux.ibm.com

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