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.
>From ae7aaecc3f2f78b76ab3a8d6178610f55aadfa56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:17:17 +1000
Subject: powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ae7aaecc3f2f78b76ab3a8d6178610f55aadfa56 upstream.
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c
@@ -140,6 +140,19 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long
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
* unsupported scv vector, in which case it's treated like an illegal
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.14/kvm-ppc-book3s-hv-tolerate-treclaim.-in-fake-suspend-mode-changing-registers.patch
queue-5.14/powerpc-64s-system-call-rfscv-workaround-for-tm-bugs.patch
queue-5.14/powerpc-64s-system-call-scv-tabort-fix-for-corrupt-irq-soft-mask-state.patch
