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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-01-11 22:11:39 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-01-12 20:09:29 +1100
commit5388fb1025443ec223ba556b10efc4c5f83f8682 (patch)
treeb14832a8886bd254533f226263a2047545c57805 /arch
parent593195f9b2309693f27b402f34573f7920b82c3e (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP
Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled. The race is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU. It will take an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has stored. Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement lazy CPU state on SMP. The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the thread_struct. To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state() function from process.c. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c21
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c20
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 105d5609ff57..913f90692a36 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ int dump_spe(struct pt_regs *regs, elf_vrregset_t *evrregs)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPE */
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
/*
* If we are doing lazy switching of CPU state (FP, altivec or SPE),
* and the current task has some state, discard it.
*/
-static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
+void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
{
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
preempt_disable();
if (last_task_used_math == current)
last_task_used_math = NULL;
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
last_task_used_spe = NULL;
#endif
preempt_enable();
-#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
int set_dabr(unsigned long dabr)
{
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index d3f0b6d452fb..177bba78fb0b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -497,6 +497,15 @@ static long restore_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs,
if (err)
return 1;
+ /*
+ * Do this before updating the thread state in
+ * current->thread.fpr/vr/evr. That way, if we get preempted
+ * and another task grabs the FPU/Altivec/SPE, it won't be
+ * tempted to save the current CPU state into the thread_struct
+ * and corrupt what we are writing there.
+ */
+ discard_lazy_cpu_state();
+
/* force the process to reload the FP registers from
current->thread when it next does FP instructions */
regs->msr &= ~(MSR_FP | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1);
@@ -538,18 +547,6 @@ static long restore_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs,
return 1;
#endif /* CONFIG_SPE */
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
- preempt_disable();
- if (last_task_used_math == current)
- last_task_used_math = NULL;
- if (last_task_used_altivec == current)
- last_task_used_altivec = NULL;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPE
- if (last_task_used_spe == current)
- last_task_used_spe = NULL;
-#endif
- preempt_enable();
-#endif
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
index 5462bef898f6..7b9d999e2115 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
@@ -207,10 +207,20 @@ static long restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set, int sig,
if (!sig)
regs->gpr[13] = save_r13;
- err |= __copy_from_user(&current->thread.fpr, &sc->fp_regs, FP_REGS_SIZE);
if (set != NULL)
err |= __get_user(set->sig[0], &sc->oldmask);
+ /*
+ * Do this before updating the thread state in
+ * current->thread.fpr/vr. That way, if we get preempted
+ * and another task grabs the FPU/Altivec, it won't be
+ * tempted to save the current CPU state into the thread_struct
+ * and corrupt what we are writing there.
+ */
+ discard_lazy_cpu_state();
+
+ err |= __copy_from_user(&current->thread.fpr, &sc->fp_regs, FP_REGS_SIZE);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
err |= __get_user(v_regs, &sc->v_regs);
err |= __get_user(msr, &sc->gp_regs[PT_MSR]);
@@ -229,14 +239,6 @@ static long restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set, int sig,
current->thread.vrsave = 0;
#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
- preempt_disable();
- if (last_task_used_math == current)
- last_task_used_math = NULL;
- if (last_task_used_altivec == current)
- last_task_used_altivec = NULL;
- preempt_enable();
-#endif
/* Force reload of FP/VEC */
regs->msr &= ~(MSR_FP | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1 | MSR_VEC);