From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3z8xDD1nq1zDqy4 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2018 10:21:46 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098409.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id vBVNKp7D068792 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:21:43 -0500 Received: from e14.ny.us.ibm.com (e14.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.204]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2f6rphy2x2-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:21:43 -0500 Received: from localhost by e14.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:21:42 -0500 From: Gustavo Romero To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: cyrilbur@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/tm: Fix endianness flip on trap Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:20:45 -0500 Message-Id: <1514762446-1323-1-git-send-email-gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Currently it's possible that a thread on PPC64 LE has its endianness flipped inadvertently to Big-Endian resulting in a crash once the process is back from the signal handler. If giveup_all() is called when regs->msr has the bits MSR.FP and MSR.VEC disabled (and hence MSR.VSX disabled too) it returns without calling check_if_tm_restore_required() which copies regs->msr to ckpt_regs->msr if the process caught a signal whilst in transactional mode. Then once in setup_tm_sigcontexts() MSR from ckpt_regs.msr is used, but since check_if_tm_restore_required() was not called previuosly, gp_regs[PT_MSR] gets a copy of invalid MSR bits as MSR in ckpt_regs was not updated from regs->msr and so is zeroed. Later when leaving the signal handler once in sys_rt_sigreturn() the TS bits of gp_regs[PT_MSR] are checked to determine if restore_tm_sigcontexts() must be called to pull in the correct MSR state into the user context. Because TS bits are zeroed restore_tm_sigcontexts() is never called and MSR restored from the user context on returning from the signal handler has the MSR.LE (the endianness bit) forced to zero (Big-Endian). That leads, for instance, to 'nop' being treated as an illegal instruction in the following sequence: tbegin. beq 1f trap tend. 1: nop on PPC64 LE machines and the process dies just after returning from the signal handler. PPC64 BE is also affected but in a subtle way since forcing Big-Endian on a BE machine does not change the endianness. This commit fixes the issue described above by ensuring that once in setup_tm_sigcontexts() the MSR used is from regs->msr instead of from ckpt_regs->msr and by ensuring that we pull in only the MSR.FP, MSR.VEC, and MSR.VSX bits from ckpt_regs->msr. The fix was tested both on LE and BE machines and no regression regarding the powerpc/tm selftests was observed. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero --- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c index 4b9ca35..b1b9962 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static long setup_tm_sigcontexts(struct sigcontext __user *sc, elf_vrreg_t __user *tm_v_regs = sigcontext_vmx_regs(tm_sc); #endif struct pt_regs *regs = tsk->thread.regs; - unsigned long msr = tsk->thread.ckpt_regs.msr; + unsigned long msr = tsk->thread.regs->msr; long err = 0; BUG_ON(tsk != current); @@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ static long setup_tm_sigcontexts(struct sigcontext __user *sc, WARN_ON(tm_suspend_disabled); + /* Restore checkpointed FP, VEC, and VSX bits from ckpt_regs as + * it contains the correct FP, VEC, VSX state after we treclaimed + * the transaction and giveup_all() was called on reclaiming. + */ + msr |= tsk->thread.ckpt_regs.msr & (MSR_FP | MSR_VEC | MSR_VSX); + /* Remove TM bits from thread's MSR. The MSR in the sigcontext * just indicates to userland that we were doing a transaction, but we * don't want to return in transactional state. This also ensures -- 2.7.4