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From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
To: jesper.nilsson@axis.com
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] CRISv32: don't attempt syscall restart on irq exit
Date: Sun,  8 Feb 2015 21:45:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1423428304-26586-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in> (raw)

r9 is used to determine whether syscall restarting must be performed or
not.  Unfortunately, r9 is never set to zero in the non-syscall path,
and r9 is on top of that a callee-saved register which can be set to
non-zero by the C functions that are called during IRQ handling.

This means that if r10 (used for the syscall return value) is one of the
-ERESTART* values when a hardware interrupt occurs which leads to a
signal being delivered to the process, the kernel will "restart" a
syscall which never occurred.  This will lead to the PC being moved back
by 2 on return to user space.

Fix the problem by setting r9 to zero in the interrupt path.

Test case (should loop forever but ends up executing the break 8 trap
instruction):

  #include <signal.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <sys/time.h>

  void f(int n)
  {
  	register int r9 asm ("r9") = 1;
  	register int r10 asm ("r10") = n;

          __asm__ __volatile__(
  		"ba	1f	\n"
  		"nop		\n"
  		"break	8	\n"
  		"1: ba	.	\n"
  		"nop		\n"
  		:
  		: "r" (r9), "r" (r10)
  		: "memory");
  }

  void handler1(int sig) { }

  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
          struct itimerval t1 = { .it_value = {1} };

          signal(SIGALRM, handler1);
          setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &t1, NULL);

          f(-513); /* -ERESTARTNOINTR */

          return 0;
  }

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
---
 arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/entry.S | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/entry.S b/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/entry.S
index 2f19ac6..d4c088b 100644
--- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/entry.S
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ ret_from_kernel_thread:
 
 	.type	ret_from_intr,@function
 ret_from_intr:
+	moveq	0, $r9			; not a syscall
+
 	;; Check for resched if preemptive kernel, or if we're going back to
 	;; user-mode. This test matches the user_regs(regs) macro. Don't simply
 	;; test CCS since that doesn't necessarily reflect what mode we'll
-- 
2.1.4


             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-08 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-08 20:45 Rabin Vincent [this message]
2015-02-08 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] CRISv32: prevent bogus restarts on sigreturn Rabin Vincent
2015-02-09  9:51   ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-02-08 20:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] CRISv32: handle multiple signals Rabin Vincent
2015-02-09  2:03   ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-09  9:57     ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-02-09 14:16       ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-09 16:57       ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-10  8:21         ` Jesper Nilsson
     [not found]           ` <CAJy5ezog4wmV13muOsVopwYhV7QYE6kwqFtJx0rsh+5Z4bf1tg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-10 12:26             ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-09  9:52   ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-02-09  9:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] CRISv32: don't attempt syscall restart on irq exit Jesper Nilsson

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