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* [PATCH v3.16.y] arm64: avoid returning from bad_mode
@ 2017-01-23 17:45 Mark Rutland
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From: Mark Rutland @ 2017-01-23 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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commit 7d9e8f71b989230bc613d121ca38507d34ada849 upstream.

Generally, taking an unexpected exception should be a fatal event, and
bad_mode is intended to cater for this. However, it should be possible
to contain unexpected synchronous exceptions from EL0 without bringing
the kernel down, by sending a SIGILL to the task.

We tried to apply this approach in commit 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64:
don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0"), by sending a signal for
any bad_mode call resulting from an EL0 exception.

However, this also applies to other unexpected exceptions, such as
SError and FIQ. The entry paths for these exceptions branch to bad_mode
without configuring the link register, and have no kernel_exit. Thus, if
we take one of these exceptions from EL0, bad_mode will eventually
return to the original user link register value.

This patch fixes this by introducing a new bad_el0_sync handler to cater
for the recoverable case, and restoring bad_mode to its original state,
whereby it calls panic() and never returns. The recoverable case
branches to bad_el0_sync with a bl, and returns to userspace via the
usual ret_to_user mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Fixes: 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64: don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0")
Reported-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 8993a69..6773873 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ el0_inv:
 	mov	x0, sp
 	mov	x1, #BAD_SYNC
 	mrs	x2, esr_el1
-	b	bad_mode
+	b	bad_el0_sync
 ENDPROC(el0_sync)
 
 	.align	6
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
index c43cfa9..c1c2ad6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -309,16 +309,33 @@ asmlinkage long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs)
 }
 
 /*
- * bad_mode handles the impossible case in the exception vector.
+ * bad_mode handles the impossible case in the exception vector. This is always
+ * fatal.
  */
 asmlinkage void bad_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, int reason, unsigned int esr)
 {
-	siginfo_t info;
-	void __user *pc = (void __user *)instruction_pointer(regs);
 	console_verbose();
 
 	pr_crit("Bad mode in %s handler detected, code 0x%08x\n",
 		handler[reason], esr);
+
+	die("Oops - bad mode", regs, 0);
+	local_irq_disable();
+	panic("bad mode");
+}
+
+/*
+ * bad_el0_sync handles unexpected, but potentially recoverable synchronous
+ * exceptions taken from EL0. Unlike bad_mode, this returns.
+ */
+asmlinkage void bad_el0_sync(struct pt_regs *regs, int reason, unsigned int esr)
+{
+	siginfo_t info;
+	void __user *pc = (void __user *)instruction_pointer(regs);
+	console_verbose();
+
+	pr_crit("Bad EL0 synchronous exception detected on CPU%d, code 0x%08x\n",
+		smp_processor_id(), esr);
 	__show_regs(regs);
 
 	info.si_signo = SIGILL;
@@ -326,7 +343,10 @@ asmlinkage void bad_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, int reason, unsigned int esr)
 	info.si_code  = ILL_ILLOPC;
 	info.si_addr  = pc;
 
-	arm64_notify_die("Oops - bad mode", regs, &info, 0);
+	current->thread.fault_address = 0;
+	current->thread.fault_code = 0;
+
+	force_sig_info(info.si_signo, &info, current);
 }
 
 void __pte_error(const char *file, int line, unsigned long val)
-- 
1.9.1


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