This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs
to the 5.14-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-64s-system-call-rfscv-workaround-for-tm-bugs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9ba0c95aa954fc9278af1d29acfb32bf49a763be
Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 8 20:17:17 2021 +1000
powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs
[ Upstream commit ae7aaecc3f2f78b76ab3a8d6178610f55aadfa56 ]
The rfscv instruction does not work correctly with the fake-suspend mode
in POWER9, which can end up with the hypervisor restoring an incorrect
checkpoint.
Work around this by setting the _TIF_RESTOREALL flag if a system call
returns to a transaction active state, causing rfid to be used instead
of rfscv to return, which will do the right thing. The contents of the
registers are irrelevant because they will be overwritten in this case
anyway.
Fixes: 7fa95f9adaee7 ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
Reported-by: Eirik Fuller <efuller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210908101718.118522-1-npiggin@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c
index 9bb5f02f9158..ec4e2d363507 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c
@@ -139,6 +139,19 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long r3, long r4, long r5,
*/
irq_soft_mask_regs_set_state(regs, IRQS_ENABLED);
+ /*
+ * If system call is called with TM active, set _TIF_RESTOREALL to
+ * prevent RFSCV being used to return to userspace, because POWER9
+ * TM implementation has problems with this instruction returning to
+ * transactional state. Final register values are not relevant because
+ * the transaction will be aborted upon return anyway. Or in the case
+ * of unsupported_scv SIGILL fault, the return state does not much
+ * matter because it's an edge case.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM) &&
+ unlikely(MSR_TM_TRANSACTIONAL(regs->msr)))
+ current_thread_info()->flags |= _TIF_RESTOREALL;
+
/*
* If the system call was made with a transaction active, doom it and
* return without performing the system call. Unless it was an
