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    powerpc/64s: system call scv tabort fix for corrupt irq soft-mask state · b871895b
    Nicholas Piggin authored
    If a system call is made with a transaction active, the kernel
    immediately aborts it and returns. scv system calls disable irqs even
    earlier in their interrupt handler, and tabort_syscall does not fix this
    up.
    
    This can result in irq soft-mask state being messed up on the next
    kernel entry, and crashing at BUG_ON(arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs)) in
    the kernel exit handlers, or possibly worse.
    
    This can't easily be fixed in asm because at this point an async irq may
    have hit, which is soft-masked and marked pending. The pending interrupt
    has to be replayed before returning to userspace. The fix is to move the
    tabort_syscall code to C in the main syscall handler, and just skip the
    system call but otherwise return as usual, which will take care of the
    pending irqs. This also does a bunch of other things including possible
    signal delivery to the process, but the doomed transaction should still
    be aborted when it is eventually returned to.
    
    The sc system call path is changed to use the new C function as well to
    reduce code and path differences. This slows down how quickly system
    calls are aborted when called while a transaction is active, which could
    potentially impact TM performance. But making any system call is already
    bad for performance, and TM is on the way out, so go with simpler over
    faster.
    
    Fixes: 7fa95f9a ("powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions")
    Reported-by: default avatarEirik Fuller <efuller@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    [mpe: Use #ifdef rather than IS_ENABLED() to fix build error on 32-bit]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903125707.1601269-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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