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From: "Alistair Popple" <alistair@popple.id.au>
To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: mikey@neuling.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix audit crash due to save/restore PPR changes
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:44:14 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18949a6b246ced7268c2d2831f931f01.squirrel@mignight.com> (raw)

The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:

kernel BUG at /home/alistair/Source/linux-stable/kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
    pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
    lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
    sp: c000000023883ce0
   msr: 8000000000029032
  current = 0xc000000023800000
  paca    = 0xc00000000f080380   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at /home/alistair/Source/linux-stable/kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
--- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc

Bisecting found the following patch caused it:

commit 44e9309f1f357794b7ae93d5f3e3e6f11d2b8a7f
Author: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore

It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()

Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 256c5bf..3acb1a0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ syscall_exit_work:
 	subi	r12,r12,TI_FLAGS

 4:	/* Anything else left to do? */
-	SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR(r3, r9)		/* Set thread.ppr = 3 */
+	SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR(r3, r10)		/* Set thread.ppr = 3 */
 	andi.	r0,r9,(_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A|_TIF_SINGLESTEP)
 	beq	.ret_from_except_lite

             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  1:44 Alistair Popple [this message]
2013-04-16  5:38 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix audit crash due to save/restore PPR changes Haren Myneni

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