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commit f474c28fbcbe42faca4eb415172c07d76adcb819 upstream. powerpc hardware triggers watchpoint before executing the instruction. To make trigger-after-execute behavior, kernel emulates the instruction. If the instruction is 'load something into non-volatile register', exception handler should restore emulated register state while returning back, otherwise there will be register state corruption. eg, adding a watchpoint on a list can corrput the list: # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep kthread_create_list c00000000121c8b8 d kthread_create_list Add watchpoint on kthread_create_list->prev: # perf record -e mem:0xc00000000121c8c0 Run some workload such that new kthread gets invoked. eg, I just logged out from console: list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (c000000001214e00), \ but was c00000000121c8b8. (next=c00000000121c8b8). WARNING: CPU: 59 PID: 309 at lib/list_debug.c:25 __list_add_valid+0xb4/0xc0 CPU: 59 PID: 309 Comm: kworker/59:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc7+ #69 ... NIP __list_add_valid+0xb4/0xc0 LR __list_add_valid+0xb0/0xc0 Call Trace: __list_add_valid+0xb0/0xc0 (unreliable) __kthread_create_on_node+0xe0/0x260 kthread_create_on_node+0x34/0x50 create_worker+0xe8/0x260 worker_thread+0x444/0x560 kthread+0x160/0x1a0 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x70 List corruption happened because it uses 'load into non-volatile register' instruction: Snippet from __kthread_create_on_node: c000000000136be8: addis r29,r2,-19 c000000000136bec: ld r29,31424(r29) if (!__list_add_valid(new, prev, next)) c000000000136bf0: mr r3,r30 c000000000136bf4: mr r5,r28 c000000000136bf8: mr r4,r29 c000000000136bfc: bl c00000000059a2f8 <__list_add_valid+0x8> Register state from WARN_ON(): GPR00: c00000000059a3a0 c000007ff23afb50 c000000001344e00 0000000000000075 GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000001852af8bc1 0000000000000000 GPR08: 0000000000000001 0000000000000007 0000000000000006 00000000000004aa GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000007ffffeb080 c000000000137038 c000005ff62aaa00 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000007fffbe7600 c000007fffbe7370 GPR20: c000007fffbe7320 c000007fffbe7300 c000000001373a00 0000000000000000 GPR24: fffffffffffffef7 c00000000012e320 c000007ff23afcb0 c000000000cb8628 GPR28: c00000000121c8b8 c000000001214e00 c000007fef5b17e8 c000007fef5b17c0 Watchpoint hit at 0xc000000000136bec. addis r29,r2,-19 => r29 = 0xc000000001344e00 + (-19 << 16) => r29 = 0xc000000001214e00 ld r29,31424(r29) => r29 = *(0xc000000001214e00 + 31424) => r29 = *(0xc00000000121c8c0) 0xc00000000121c8c0 is where we placed a watchpoint and thus this instruction was emulated by emulate_step. But because handle_dabr_fault did not restore emulated register state, r29 still contains stale value in above register state. Fixes: 5aae8a5370802 ("powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors") Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.36+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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