This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/47x: Fix 47x syscall return crash
to the 5.15-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-47x-fix-47x-syscall-return-crash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e8d03c211ca2194013114187bafd96fc44cbdde8
Author: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 10 22:47:50 2023 +1100
powerpc/47x: Fix 47x syscall return crash
[ Upstream commit f0eee815babed70a749d2496a7678be5b45b4c14 ]
Eddie reported that newer kernels were crashing during boot on his 476
FSP2 system:
kernel tried to execute user page (b7ee2000) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
Faulting instruction address: 0xb7ee2000
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K FSP-2
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 61 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fsp2 #1
Hardware name: ibm,fsp2 476fpe 0x7ff520c0 FSP-2
NIP: b7ee2000 LR: 8c008000 CTR: 00000000
REGS: bffebd83 TRAP: 0400 Not tainted (6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fs p2)
MSR: 00000030 <IR,DR> CR: 00001000 XER: 20000000
GPR00: c00110ac bffebe63 bffebe7e bffebe88 8c008000 00001000 00000d12 b7ee2000
GPR08: 00000033 00000000 00000000 c139df10 48224824 1016c314 10160000 00000000
GPR16: 10160000 10160000 00000008 00000000 10160000 00000000 10160000 1017f5b0
GPR24: 1017fa50 1017f4f0 1017fa50 1017f740 1017f630 00000000 00000000 1017f4f0
NIP [b7ee2000] 0xb7ee2000
LR [8c008000] 0x8c008000
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
The problem is in ret_from_syscall where the check for
icache_44x_need_flush is done. When the flush is needed the code jumps
out-of-line to do the flush, and then intends to jump back to continue
the syscall return.
However the branch back to label 1b doesn't return to the correct
location, instead branching back just prior to the return to userspace,
causing bogus register values to be used by the rfi.
The breakage was introduced by commit 6f76a01173cc
("powerpc/syscall: implement system call entry/exit logic in C for PPC32") which
inadvertently removed the "1" label and reused it elsewhere.
Fix it by adding named local labels in the correct locations. Note that
the return label needs to be outside the ifdef so that CONFIG_PPC_47x=n
compiles.
Fixes: 6f76a01173cc ("powerpc/syscall: implement system call entry/exit logic in C for PPC32")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.12+
Reported-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/fdaadc46-7476-9237-e104-1d2168526e72@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231010114750.847794-1-mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 0756829b2f7fa..3eb3c74e402b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -136,8 +136,9 @@ ret_from_syscall:
lis r4,icache_44x_need_flush@ha
lwz r5,icache_44x_need_flush@l(r4)
cmplwi cr0,r5,0
- bne- 2f
+ bne- .L44x_icache_flush
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_47x */
+.L44x_icache_flush_return:
kuep_unlock
lwz r4,_LINK(r1)
lwz r5,_CCR(r1)
@@ -173,10 +174,11 @@ syscall_exit_finish:
b 1b
#ifdef CONFIG_44x
-2: li r7,0
+.L44x_icache_flush:
+ li r7,0
iccci r0,r0
stw r7,icache_44x_need_flush@l(r4)
- b 1b
+ b .L44x_icache_flush_return
#endif /* CONFIG_44x */
.globl ret_from_fork
