From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/kuap: Restore AMR after replaying soft interrupts
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:08:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh2vjsxg.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203054724.44838-1-aik@ozlabs.ru>
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> writes:
> When interrupted in raw_copy_from_user()/... after user memory access
> is enabled, a nested handler may also access user memory (perf is
> one example) and when it does so, it calls prevent_read_from_user()
> which prevents the upper handler from accessing user memory.
>
> This saves/restores AMR when replaying interrupts.
>
> get_kuap/set_kuap have stubs for disabled KUAP on RADIX but there are
> none for hash-only configs (BOOK3E) so this adds stubs and moves
> AMR_KUAP_BLOCK_xxx.
>
> Found by syzkaller. More likely to break with enabled
> CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, the call chain is
> timer_interrupt -> ktime_get -> read_seqcount_begin -> local_irq_restore.
Can you test this with https://github.com/kvaneesh/linux/commits/hash-kuap-reworked-2
We do save restore AMR on interrupt entry and exit.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 5:47 [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/kuap: Restore AMR after replaying soft interrupts Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-12-03 6:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2020-12-03 8:10 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-12-03 7:41 ` kernel test robot
2020-12-03 8:03 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-12-03 8:13 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-12-04 21:02 ` kernel test robot
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