On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 12:41:54PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > [ Upstream commit fc290a114fc6034b0f6a5a46e2fb7d54976cf87a ] > > This fixes another cause of random segfaults and bus errors that may > occur while running perf with the callgraph option. > > Critical sections beginning with spin_lock_irqsave() raise the interrupt > level to PIL_NORMAL_MAX (14) and intentionally do not block performance > counter interrupts, which arrive at PIL_NMI (15). > > But some sections of code are "super critical" with respect to perf > because the perf_callchain_user() path accesses user space and may cause > TLB activity as well as faults as it unwinds the user stack. > > One particular critical section occurs in switch_mm: > > spin_lock_irqsave(&mm->context.lock, flags); > ... > load_secondary_context(mm); > tsb_context_switch(mm); > ... > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mm->context.lock, flags); > > If a perf interrupt arrives in between load_secondary_context() and > tsb_context_switch(), then perf_callchain_user() could execute with > the context ID of one process, but with an active TSB for a different > process. When the user stack is accessed, it is very likely to > incur a TLB miss, since the h/w context ID has been changed. The TLB > will then be reloaded with a translation from the TSB for one process, > but using a context ID for another process. This exposes memory from > one process to another, and since it is a mapping for stack memory, > this usually causes the new process to crash quickly. > > This super critical section needs more protection than is provided > by spin_lock_irqsave() since perf interrupts must not be allowed in. > > Since __tsb_context_switch already goes through the trouble of > disabling interrupts completely, we fix this by moving the secondary > context load down into this better protected region. > > Orabug: 25577560 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Aldridge <david.j.aldridge@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_64.h | 12 +++++++----- > arch/sparc/kernel/tsb.S | 12 ++++++++++++ > arch/sparc/power/hibernate.c | 3 +-- > 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_64.h > +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_64.h > @@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *m > void __tsb_context_switch(unsigned long pgd_pa, > struct tsb_config *tsb_base, > struct tsb_config *tsb_huge, > - unsigned long tsb_descr_pa); > + unsigned long tsb_descr_pa, > + unsigned long secondary_ctx); > > -static inline void tsb_context_switch(struct mm_struct *mm) > +static inline void tsb_context_switch_ctx(struct mm_struct *mm, > + unsigned long ctx) > { > __tsb_context_switch(__pa(mm->pgd), > &mm->context.tsb_block[0], > @@ -38,7 +40,8 @@ static inline void tsb_context_switch(st > #else > NULL > #endif > - , __pa(&mm->context.tsb_descr[0])); > + , __pa(&mm->context.tsb_descr[0]), > + ctx); > } > > void tsb_grow(struct mm_struct *mm, > @@ -110,8 +113,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_s > * cpu0 to update it's TSB because at that point the cpu_vm_mask > * only had cpu1 set in it. > */ > - load_secondary_context(mm); > - tsb_context_switch(mm); > + tsb_context_switch_ctx(mm, CTX_HWBITS(mm->context)); > > /* Any time a processor runs a context on an address space > * for the first time, we must flush that context out of the > --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/tsb.S > +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/tsb.S > @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ tsb_flush: > * %o1: TSB base config pointer > * %o2: TSB huge config pointer, or NULL if none > * %o3: Hypervisor TSB descriptor physical address > + * %o4: Secondary context to load, if non-zero > * > * We have to run this whole thing with interrupts > * disabled so that the current cpu doesn't change > @@ -387,6 +388,17 @@ __tsb_context_switch: > rdpr %pstate, %g1 > wrpr %g1, PSTATE_IE, %pstate > > + brz,pn %o4, 1f > + mov SECONDARY_CONTEXT, %o5 > + > +661: stxa %o4, [%o5] ASI_DMMU > + .section .sun4v_1insn_patch, "ax" > + .word 661b > + stxa %o4, [%o5] ASI_MMU > + .previous > + flush %g6 > + > +1: > TRAP_LOAD_TRAP_BLOCK(%g2, %g3) > > stx %o0, [%g2 + TRAP_PER_CPU_PGD_PADDR] > --- a/arch/sparc/power/hibernate.c > +++ b/arch/sparc/power/hibernate.c > @@ -35,6 +35,5 @@ void restore_processor_state(void) > { > struct mm_struct *mm = current->active_mm; > > - load_secondary_context(mm); > - tsb_context_switch(mm); > + tsb_context_switch_ctx(mm, CTX_HWBITS(mm->context)); > } > This also breaks the build here as well, so I'm dropping it from the patch queue. thanks, greg k-h