From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 8aa9e85adac609588eeec356e5a85059b3b819ba upstream. There was a very small race window where resume to kernel mode from a Exception Path (or pure kernel mode which is true for most of ARC exceptions anyways), was not disabling interrupts in restore_regs, clobbering the exception regs Anton found the culprit call flow (after many sleepless nights) | 1. we got a Trap from user land | 2. started to service it. | 3. While doing some stuff on user-land memory (I think it is padzero()), | we got a DataTlbMiss | 4. On return from it we are taking "resume_kernel_mode" path | 5. NEED_RESHED is not set, so we go to "return from exception" path in | restore regs. | 6. there seems to be IRQ happening Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Francois Bedard <Francois.Bedard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S index b908dde8a331..15588b0611e9 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S @@ -610,11 +610,13 @@ resume_user_mode_begin: resume_kernel_mode: -#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT - - ; This is a must for preempt_schedule_irq() + ; Disable Interrupts from this point on + ; CONFIG_PREEMPT: This is a must for preempt_schedule_irq() + ; !CONFIG_PREEMPT: To ensure restore_regs is intr safe IRQ_DISABLE r9 +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT + ; Can't preempt if preemption disabled GET_CURR_THR_INFO_FROM_SP r10 ld r8, [r10, THREAD_INFO_PREEMPT_COUNT] -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html