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Michael Ellerman 78ee994637 powerpc/64s: Make rfi_flush_fallback a little more robust
Because rfi_flush_fallback runs immediately before the return to
userspace it currently runs with the user r1 (stack pointer). This
means if we oops in there we will report a bad kernel stack pointer in
the exception entry path, eg:

  Bad kernel stack pointer 7ffff7150e40 at c0000000000023b4
  Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1246 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3 #7
  NIP:  c0000000000023b4 LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
  REGS: c0000000fffe7d40 TRAP: 4100   Not tainted  (4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3)
  MSR:  9000000002803031 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE>  CR: 44000442  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: c0000000f1e66a80
  GPR00: 0000000002000000 00007ffff7150e40 00007fff93a99900 0000000000000020
  ...
  NIP [c0000000000023b4] rfi_flush_fallback+0x34/0x80
  LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00

Although the NIP tells us where we were, and the TRAP number tells us
what happened, it would still be nicer if we could report the actual
exception rather than barfing about the stack pointer.

We an do that fairly simply by loading the kernel stack pointer on
entry and restoring the user value before returning. That way we see a
regular oops such as:

  Unrecoverable exception 4100 at c00000000000239c
  Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty #40
  NIP:  c00000000000239c LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
  REGS: c0000000f1e17bb0 TRAP: 4100   Not tainted  (4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty)
  MSR:  9000000002803031 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE>  CR: 44000442  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: 0
  ...
  NIP [c00000000000239c] rfi_flush_fallback+0x3c/0x80
  LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000f1e17e30] [c00000000000b9e4] system_call+0x5c/0x70 (unreliable)

Note this shouldn't make the kernel stack pointer vulnerable to a
meltdown attack, because it should be flushed from the cache before we
return to userspace. The user r1 value will be in the cache, because
we load it in the return path, but that is harmless.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
2018-08-08 00:32:27 +10:00
arch powerpc/64s: Make rfi_flush_fallback a little more robust 2018-08-08 00:32:27 +10:00
block for-linus-20180629 2018-06-30 10:47:46 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter 2018-08-08 00:32:25 +10:00
drivers hwmon: (ibmpowernv) Add attributes to enable/disable sensor groups 2018-07-31 19:56:45 +10:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-4.18-rc2-tag 2018-07-01 12:38:16 -07:00
include macintosh/via-pmu: Replace via-pmu68k driver with via-pmu driver 2018-07-31 19:56:42 +10:00
init Kbuild fixes for v4.18 2018-06-30 13:05:30 -07:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel Add a missing export required by riscv and unicore 2018-07-01 10:45:13 -07:00
lib for-linus-20180629 2018-06-30 10:47:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm slub: fix failure when we delete and create a slab cache 2018-06-28 11:16:44 -07:00
net net: handle NULL ->poll gracefully 2018-06-29 06:51:51 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts scripts: Add ppc64le support for checkstack.pl 2018-07-02 23:54:28 +10:00
security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound powerpc/ps3: Set driver coherent_dma_mask 2018-07-20 12:50:37 +10:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Update strlen() test to test the new assembly function for PPC32 2018-08-07 21:49:31 +10:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Prevent KVM_COMPAT from being selected 2018-06-21 17:17:50 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Remove the entry for the orphaned ams driver 2018-07-19 21:58:10 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc3 2018-07-01 16:04:53 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.