Patch "powerpc/boot: Fix the early OPAL console wrappers" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

Patch "powerpc/boot: Fix the early OPAL console wrappers" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/boot: Fix the early OPAL console wrappers

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-boot-fix-the-early-opal-console-wrappers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a1ff57416af9a7971a801d553cd53edd8afb28d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:55:13 +1100
Subject: powerpc/boot: Fix the early OPAL console wrappers

From: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>

commit a1ff57416af9a7971a801d553cd53edd8afb28d6 upstream.

When configured with CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_OPAL=y the kernel expects
the OPAL entry and base addresses to be passed in r8 and r9
respectively. Currently the wrapper does not attempt to restore these
values before entering the decompressed kernel which causes the kernel
to branch into whatever happens to be in r9 when doing a write to the
OPAL console in early boot.

This patch adds a platform_ops hook that can be used to branch into the
new kernel. The OPAL console driver patches this at runtime so that if
the console is used it will be restored just prior to entering the
kernel.

Fixes: 656ad58ef19e ("powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers")
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/boot/main.c       |    8 ++++++--
 arch/powerpc/boot/opal-calls.S |   13 +++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/boot/opal.c       |   11 +++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h        |    1 +
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
@@ -217,8 +217,12 @@ void start(void)
 		console_ops.close();
 
 	kentry = (kernel_entry_t) vmlinux.addr;
-	if (ft_addr)
-		kentry(ft_addr, 0, NULL);
+	if (ft_addr) {
+		if(platform_ops.kentry)
+			platform_ops.kentry(ft_addr, vmlinux.addr);
+		else
+			kentry(ft_addr, 0, NULL);
+	}
 	else
 		kentry((unsigned long)initrd.addr, initrd.size,
 		       loader_info.promptr);
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/opal-calls.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/opal-calls.S
@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@
 
 	.text
 
+	.globl opal_kentry
+opal_kentry:
+	/* r3 is the fdt ptr */
+	mtctr r4
+	li	r4, 0
+	li	r5, 0
+	li	r6, 0
+	li	r7, 0
+	ld	r11,opal@got(r2)
+	ld	r8,0(r11)
+	ld	r9,8(r11)
+	bctr
+
 #define OPAL_CALL(name, token)				\
 	.globl name;					\
 name:							\
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/opal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/opal.c
@@ -23,14 +23,25 @@ struct opal {
 
 static u32 opal_con_id;
 
+/* see opal-wrappers.S */
 int64_t opal_console_write(int64_t term_number, u64 *length, const u8 *buffer);
 int64_t opal_console_read(int64_t term_number, uint64_t *length, u8 *buffer);
 int64_t opal_console_write_buffer_space(uint64_t term_number, uint64_t *length);
 int64_t opal_console_flush(uint64_t term_number);
 int64_t opal_poll_events(uint64_t *outstanding_event_mask);
 
+void opal_kentry(unsigned long fdt_addr, void *vmlinux_addr);
+
 static int opal_con_open(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * When OPAL loads the boot kernel it stashes the OPAL base and entry
+	 * address in r8 and r9 so the kernel can use the OPAL console
+	 * before unflattening the devicetree. While executing the wrapper will
+	 * probably trash r8 and r9 so this kentry hook restores them before
+	 * entering the decompressed kernel.
+	 */
+	platform_ops.kentry = opal_kentry;
 	return 0;
 }
 
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct platform_ops {
 	void *	(*realloc)(void *ptr, unsigned long size);
 	void	(*exit)(void);
 	void *	(*vmlinux_alloc)(unsigned long size);
+	void  	(*kentry)(unsigned long fdt_addr, void *vmlinux_addr);
 };
 extern struct platform_ops platform_ops;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oohall@gmail.com are

queue-4.8/powerpc-boot-fix-the-early-opal-console-wrappers.patch