Re: [PATCH V3] irqchip/gic-v3: Workaround Marvell erratum 38545 when reading IAR

From: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
To: Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com>
Cc: <maz@kernel.org>, <tglx@linutronix.de>, <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	<will@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, <linuc.decode@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] irqchip/gic-v3: Workaround Marvell erratum 38545 when reading IAR
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 12:40:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YijmkXp1VG7e8lDx@qian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220307143014.22758-1-lcherian@marvell.com>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 08:00:14PM +0530, Linu Cherian wrote:
> When a IAR register read races with a GIC interrupt RELEASE event,
> GIC-CPU interface could wrongly return a valid INTID to the CPU
> for an interrupt that is already released(non activated) instead of 0x3ff.
> 
> As a side effect, an interrupt handler could run twice, once with
> interrupt priority and then with idle priority.
> 
> As a workaround, gic_read_iar is updated so that it will return a
> valid interrupt ID only if there is a change in the active priority list
> after the IAR read on all the affected Silicons.
> 
> Since there are silicon variants where both 23154 and 38545 are applicable,
> workaround for erratum 23154 has been extended to address both of them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com>

Reverting this commit from today's linux-next fixed global-out-of-bounds
accesses running CPU hotplug workloads on a non-ThunderX server.

 psci: CPU88 killed (polled 0 ms)
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in is_affected_midr_range_list
 Read of size 4 at addr ffffa0ec80ddcc6c by task swapper/88/0

 CPU: 88 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/88 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-next-20220309-dirty #25
 Call trace:
  dump_backtrace
  show_stack
  dump_stack_lvl
  print_address_description.constprop.0
  print_report
  kasan_report
  __asan_report_load4_noabort
  is_affected_midr_range_list
  is_midr_in_range_list at ./arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h:221
  (inlined by) is_affected_midr_range_list at arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c:41
  verify_local_cpu_caps
  verify_local_cpu_caps at arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:2787
  check_local_cpu_capabilities
  verify_local_elf_hwcaps at arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:2852
  (inlined by) verify_local_cpu_capabilities at arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:2922
  (inlined by) check_local_cpu_capabilities at arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:2948
  secondary_start_kernel
  __secondary_switched

 The buggy address belongs to the variable:
  cavium_erratum_23154_cpus

 The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at
  [ffffa0ec80dd0000, ffffa0ec82140000) created by:
  map_kernel

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