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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2013-08-15 09:22:19 +0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-08-27 08:45:09 +0400
commitb3f6a45925232d29519007f1ba6687e1e790fb5d (patch)
treeb76bc13ff985e56795c2f5a16de8897e7a0f8a0d /arch
parentd671ddd6654daf93c56f6ddff827bed448e1a312 (diff)
downloadlinux-b3f6a45925232d29519007f1ba6687e1e790fb5d.tar.xz
powerpc: Skip emulating & leave interrupts off for kernel program checks
In the program check handler we handle some causes with interrupts off and others with interrupts on. We need to enable interrupts to handle the emulation cases, because they access userspace memory and might sleep. For faults in the kernel we don't want to do any emulation, and emulate_instruction() enforces that. do_mathemu() doesn't but probably should. The other disadvantage of enabling interrupts for kernel faults is that we may take another interrupt, and recurse. As seen below: --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1 [link register ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90 [c000000fb185dc10] 0000000000000000 (unreliable) [c000000fb185dc80] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0 [c000000fb185dd00] c000000000002f40 emulation_assist_common+0x140/0x180 --- Exception: e40 at c000000000004ee0 performance_monitor_relon_pSeries_1 [link register ] c00000000000f858 .arch_local_irq_restore+0x38/0x90 [c000000fb185dff0] 00000000008b9190 (unreliable) [c000000fb185e060] c0000000007d8558 .program_check_exception+0x298/0x2d0 So avoid both problems by checking if the fault was in the kernel and skipping the enable of interrupts and the emulation. Go straight to delivering the SIGILL, which for kernel faults calls die() and so on, dropping us in the debugger etc. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index bdf2dd141598..77a7581dcb1c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1151,6 +1151,16 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
}
#endif
+ /*
+ * If we took the program check in the kernel skip down to sending a
+ * SIGILL. The subsequent cases all relate to emulating instructions
+ * which we should only do for userspace. We also do not want to enable
+ * interrupts for kernel faults because that might lead to further
+ * faults, and loose the context of the original exception.
+ */
+ if (!user_mode(regs))
+ goto sigill;
+
/* We restore the interrupt state now */
if (!arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs))
local_irq_enable();
@@ -1179,6 +1189,7 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
}
}
+sigill:
if (reason & REASON_PRIVILEGED)
_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_PRVOPC, regs->nip);
else