Kamalesh Babulal e36a82ee4c powerpc/livepatch: Fix livepatch stack access
While running stress test with livepatch module loaded, kernel bug was
triggered.

  cpu 0x5: Vector: 400 (Instruction Access) at [c0000000eb9d3b60]
  5:mon> t
  [c0000000eb9d3de0] c0000000eb9d3e30 (unreliable)
  [c0000000eb9d3e30] c000000000008ab4 hardware_interrupt_common+0x114/0x120
   --- Exception: 501 (Hardware Interrupt) at c000000000053040 livepatch_handler+0x4c/0x74
  [c0000000eb9d4120] 0000000057ac6e9d (unreliable)
  [d0000000089d9f78] 2e0965747962382e
  SP (965747962342e09) is in userspace

When an interrupt occurs during the livepatch_handler execution, it's
possible for the livepatch_stack and/or thread_info to be corrupted.
eg:

  Task A                        Interrupt Handler
  =========                     =================
  livepatch_handler:
  mr r0, r1
  ld r1, TI_livepatch_sp(r12)
                                hardware_interrupt_common:
                                  do_IRQ+0x8:
                                    mflr    r0          <- saved stack pointer is overwritten
                                    bl      _mcount
                                    ...
                                    std     r27,-40(r1) <- overwrite of thread_info()

  lis r2, STACK_END_MAGIC@h
  ori r2, r2, STACK_END_MAGIC@l
  ld  r12, -8(r1)

Fix the corruption by using r11 register for livepatch stack
manipulation, instead of shuffling task stack and livepatch stack into
r1 register. Using r11 register also avoids disabling/enabling irq's
while setting up the livepatch stack.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-10 15:27:42 +11:00
2017-09-29 14:19:44 +10:00
2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
2017-09-24 16:38:56 -07:00

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