[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 126/237] powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE

Sasha Levin
2019-11-16T15:43:55Z

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 909c9407e392a..02b69a68139cc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -575,12 +575,11 @@ 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