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Subject: Re: powerpc/64s: Fix i-side SLB miss bad address handler saving
 nonvolatile GPRs
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:52:58 +1100 (AEDT)
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On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 05:53:38 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The SLB bad address handler's trap number fixup does not preserve the
> low bit that indicates nonvolatile GPRs have not been saved. This
> leads save_nvgprs to skip saving them, and subsequent functions and
> return from interrupt will think they are saved.
> 
> This causes kernel branch-to-garbage debugging to not have correct
> registers, can also cause userspace to have its registers clobbered
> after a segfault.
> 
> Fixes: f0f558b131 ("powerpc/mm: Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address")
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

I added:
  Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/52396500f97c53860164debc7d4f75

cheers