From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 10:17:17 +0000 (+1000) Subject: powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/unified/20230118.172025~6325^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae7aaecc3f2f78b76ab3a8d6178610f55aadfa56;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs 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 Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210908101718.118522-1-npiggin@gmail.com --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c index 2ccc7ea..de10a26 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c @@ -138,6 +138,19 @@ 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 * unsupported scv vector, in which case it's treated like an illegal