From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Felipe Rechia <felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 50/99] powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:50:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191116155103.10971-50-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191116155103.10971-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Felipe Rechia <felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br>
[ Upstream commit e901378578c62202594cba0f6c076f3df365ec91 ]
Fix a bug introduced by the creation of flush_all_to_thread() for
processors that have SPE (Signal Processing Engine) and use it to
compute floating-point operations.
>From userspace perspective, the problem was seen in attempts of
computing floating-point operations which should generate exceptions.
For example:
fork();
float x = 0.0 / 0.0;
isnan(x); // forked process returns False (should be True)
The operation above also should always cause the SPEFSCR FINV bit to
be set. However, the SPE floating-point exceptions were turned off
after a fork().
Kernel versions prior to the bug used flush_spe_to_thread(), which
first saves SPEFSCR register values in tsk->thread and then calls
giveup_spe(tsk).
After commit 579e633e764e, the save_all() function was called first
to giveup_spe(), and then the SPEFSCR register values were saved in
tsk->thread. This would save the SPEFSCR register values after
disabling SPE for that thread, causing the bug described above.
Fixes 579e633e764e ("powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()")
Signed-off-by: Felipe Rechia <felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 47c6c0401b3a2..54c95e7c74cce 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -576,12 +576,11 @@ void flush_all_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
if (tsk->thread.regs) {
preempt_disable();
BUG_ON(tsk != current);
- save_all(tsk);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SPE
if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_SPE)
tsk->thread.spefscr = mfspr(SPRN_SPEFSCR);
#endif
+ save_all(tsk);
preempt_enable();
}
--
2.20.1
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2019-11-16 15:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 05/99] powerpc: Fix signedness bug in update_flash_db() Sasha Levin
2019-11-16 15:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 06/99] powerpc/eeh: Fix use of EEH_PE_KEEP on wrong field Sasha Levin
2019-11-16 15:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 30/99] macintosh/windfarm_smu_sat: Fix debug output Sasha Levin
2019-11-16 15:50 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-11-16 15:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 68/99] mm/memory_hotplug: make add_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock Sasha Levin
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