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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2020-10-13 07:37:40 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-10-19 23:59:21 +0300
commit1da4a0272c5469169f78cd76cf175ff984f52f06 (patch)
tree5039507c4716e5bb1ea87085cb9f086998255719 /arch/powerpc
parent358ab796ce78ba271a6ff82834183ffb2cb68c4c (diff)
downloadlinux-1da4a0272c5469169f78cd76cf175ff984f52f06.tar.xz
powerpc: Fix undetected data corruption with P9N DD2.1 VSX CI load emulation
__get_user_atomic_128_aligned() stores to kaddr using stvx which is a VMX store instruction, hence kaddr must be 16 byte aligned otherwise the store won't occur as expected. Unfortunately when we call __get_user_atomic_128_aligned() in p9_hmi_special_emu(), the buffer we pass as kaddr (ie. vbuf) isn't guaranteed to be 16B aligned. This means that the write to vbuf in __get_user_atomic_128_aligned() has the bottom bits of the address truncated. This results in other local variables being overwritten. Also vbuf will not contain the correct data which results in the userspace emulation being wrong and hence undetected user data corruption. In the past we've been mostly lucky as vbuf has ended up aligned but this is fragile and isn't always true. CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR in particular can change the stack arrangement enough that our luck runs out. This issue only occurs on POWER9 Nimbus <= DD2.1 bare metal. The fix is to align vbuf to a 16 byte boundary. Fixes: 5080332c2c89 ("powerpc/64s: Add workaround for P9 vector CI load issue") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+ Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013043741.743413-1-mikey@neuling.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index c5f39f13e96e..5006dcbe1d9f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static void p9_hmi_special_emu(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
unsigned int ra, rb, t, i, sel, instr, rc;
const void __user *addr;
- u8 vbuf[16], *vdst;
+ u8 vbuf[16] __aligned(16), *vdst;
unsigned long ea, msr, msr_mask;
bool swap;