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commit 2464cc4c345699adea52c7aef75707207cb8a2f6 upstream. After a treclaim, we expect to be in non-transactional state. If we don't clear the current thread's MSR[TS] before we get preempted, then tm_recheckpoint_new_task() will recheckpoint and we get rescheduled in suspended transaction state. When handling a signal caught in transactional state, handle_rt_signal64() calls get_tm_stackpointer() that treclaims the transaction using tm_reclaim_current() but without clearing the thread's MSR[TS]. This can cause the TM Bad Thing exception below if later we pagefault and get preempted trying to access the user's sigframe, using __put_user(). Afterwards, when we are rescheduled back into do_page_fault() (but now in suspended state since the thread's MSR[TS] was not cleared), upon executing 'rfid' after completion of the page fault handling, the exception is raised because a transition from suspended to non-transactional state is invalid. Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c00000000000de44 (msr 0x8000000302a03031) tm_scratch=800000010280b033 Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries CPU: 25 PID: 15547 Comm: a.out Not tainted 5.4.0-rc2 #32 NIP: c00000000000de44 LR: c000000000034728 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c00000003fe7bd70 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.4.0-rc2) MSR: 8000000302a03031 <SF,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE,TM[SE]> CR: 44000884 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c00000000000dda4 IRQMASK: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 800000010280b033 GPR00: c000000000034728 c000000f65a17c80 c000000001662800 00007fffacf3fd78 GPR04: 0000000000001000 0000000000001000 0000000000000000 c000000f611f8af0 GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000078006001 0000000000000000 000c000000000000 GPR12: c000000f611f84b0 c00000003ffcb200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000f611f8140 GPR24: 0000000000000000 00007fffacf3fd68 c000000f65a17d90 c000000f611f7800 GPR28: c000000f65a17e90 c000000f65a17e90 c000000001685e18 00007fffacf3f000 NIP [c00000000000de44] fast_exception_return+0xf4/0x1b0 LR [c000000000034728] handle_rt_signal64+0x78/0xc50 Call Trace: [c000000f65a17c80] [c000000000034710] handle_rt_signal64+0x60/0xc50 (unreliable) [c000000f65a17d30] [c000000000023640] do_notify_resume+0x330/0x460 [c000000f65a17e20] [c00000000000dcc4] ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74 Instruction dump: 7c4ff120 e8410170 7c5a03a6 38400000 f8410060 e8010070 e8410080 e8610088 60000000 60000000 e8810090 e8210078 <4c000024> 48000000 e8610178 88ed0989 ---[ end trace 93094aa44b442f87 ]--- The simplified sequence of events that triggers the above exception is: ... # userspace in NON-TRANSACTIONAL state tbegin # userspace in TRANSACTIONAL state signal delivery # kernelspace in SUSPENDED state handle_rt_signal64() get_tm_stackpointer() treclaim # kernelspace in NON-TRANSACTIONAL state __put_user() page fault happens. We will never get back here because of the TM Bad Thing exception. page fault handling kicks in and we voluntarily preempt ourselves do_page_fault() __schedule() __switch_to(other_task) our task is rescheduled and we recheckpoint because the thread's MSR[TS] was not cleared __switch_to(our_task) switch_to_tm() tm_recheckpoint_new_task() trechkpt # kernelspace in SUSPENDED state The page fault handling resumes, but now we are in suspended transaction state do_page_fault() completes rfid <----- trying to get back where the page fault happened (we were non-transactional back then) TM Bad Thing # illegal transition from suspended to non-transactional This patch fixes that issue by clearing the current thread's MSR[TS] just after treclaim in get_tm_stackpointer() so that we stay in non-transactional state in case we are preempted. In order to make treclaim and clearing the thread's MSR[TS] atomic from a preemption perspective when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set, preempt_disable/enable() is used. It's also necessary to save the previous value of the thread's MSR before get_tm_stackpointer() is called so that it can be exposed to the signal handler later in setup_tm_sigcontexts() to inform the userspace MSR at the moment of the signal delivery. Found with tm-signal-context-force-tm kernel selftest. Fixes: 2b0a576d15e0 ("powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9 Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211033831.11165-1-gustavold@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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