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Commit 972fb50c authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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powerpc/64/interrupt: Temporarily save PPR on stack to fix register corruption due to SLB miss



This is a minimal stable kernel fix for the problem solved by
4c2de74cc869 ("powerpc/64: Interrupts save PPR on stack rather than
thread_struct").

Upstream kernels between 4.17-4.20 have this bug, so I propose this
patch for 4.19 stable.

Longer description from mpe:

In commit f384796c ("powerpc/mm: Add support for handling > 512TB
address in SLB miss") we added support for using multiple context ids
per process. Previously accessing past the first context id was a fatal
error for the process. With the new support it became non-fatal, and so
the previous "bad_addr_slb" handler was changed to be the
"large_addr_slb" handler.

That handler uses the EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON() macro, which in-turn
calls the SAVE_PPR() macro. At the point where SAVE_PPR() is used, the
r9-13 register values from the original user fault are saved in
paca->exslb. It's not until later in EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON_2() that
they are saved from paca->exslb onto the kernel stack.

The PPR is saved into current->thread.ppr, which is notably not on the
kernel stack the way pt_regs are. This means we can take an SLB miss on
current->thread.ppr. If that happens in the "large_addr_slb" case we
will clobber the saved user r9-r13 in paca->exslb with kernel values.
Later we will save those clobbered values into the pt_regs on the stack,
and when we return to userspace those kernel values will be restored.

Typically this appears as some sort of segfault in userspace, with an
address that looks like a kernel address. In dmesg it can appear as:

  [19117.440331] some_program[1869625]: unhandled signal 11 at c00000000f6bda10 nip 00007fff780d559c lr 00007fff781ae56c code 30001

The upstream fix for this issue was to move PPR into pt_regs, on the
kernel stack, avoiding the possibility of an SLB fault when saving it.

However changing the size of pt_regs is an intrusive change, and has
side effects in other parts of the kernel. A minimal fix is to
temporarily save the PPR in an unused part of pt_regs, then save the
user register values from paca->exslb into pt_regs, and then move the
saved PPR into thread.ppr.

Fixes: f384796c ("powerpc/mm: Add support for handling > 512TB address in SLB miss")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220316033235.903657-1-npiggin@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 75b0cc79
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