Patch "powerpc/64e: Fix hang when debugging programs with relocated kernel" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

Patch "powerpc/64e: Fix hang when debugging programs with relocated kernel" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/64e: Fix hang when debugging programs with relocated kernel

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-64e-fix-hang-when-debugging-programs-with-relocated-kernel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From fd615f69a18a9d4aa5ef02a1dc83f319f75da8e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LiuHailong <liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:35:52 +0800
Subject: powerpc/64e: Fix hang when debugging programs with relocated kernel

From: LiuHailong <liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn>

commit fd615f69a18a9d4aa5ef02a1dc83f319f75da8e7 upstream.

Debug interrupts can be taken during interrupt entry, since interrupt
entry does not automatically turn them off.  The kernel will check
whether the faulting instruction is between [interrupt_base_book3e,
__end_interrupts], and if so clear MSR[DE] and return.

However, when the kernel is built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, it can't use
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r14,interrupt_base_book3e) and
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r15,__end_interrupts), as they ignore relocation.
Thus, if the kernel is actually running at a different address than it
was built at, the address comparison will fail, and the exception entry
code will hang at kernel_dbg_exc.

r2(toc) is also not usable here, as r2 still holds data from the
interrupted context, so LOAD_REG_ADDR() doesn't work either.  So we use
the *name@got* to get the EV of two labels directly.

Test programs test.c shows as follows:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (access("/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid", F_OK) == -1)
		printf("Kernel doesn't have perf_event support\n");
}

Steps to reproduce the bug, for example:
 1) ./gdb ./test
 2) (gdb) b access
 3) (gdb) r
 4) (gdb) s

Signed-off-by: Liu Hailong <liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Huang Jian <huang.jian@zte.com.cn>
[scottwood: cleaned up commit message, and specified bad behavior
 as a hang rather than an oops to correspond to mainline kernel behavior]
Fixes: 1cb6e0649248 ("powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE")
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
@@ -735,8 +735,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC)
 	andis.	r15,r14,(DBSR_IC|DBSR_BT)@h
 	beq+	1f
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+	ld	r15,PACATOC(r13)
+	ld	r14,interrupt_base_book3e@got(r15)
+	ld	r15,__end_interrupts@got(r15)
+#else
 	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r14,interrupt_base_book3e)
 	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r15,__end_interrupts)
+#endif
 	cmpld	cr0,r10,r14
 	cmpld	cr1,r10,r15
 	blt+	cr0,1f
@@ -799,8 +805,14 @@ kernel_dbg_exc:
 	andis.	r15,r14,(DBSR_IC|DBSR_BT)@h
 	beq+	1f
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+	ld	r15,PACATOC(r13)
+	ld	r14,interrupt_base_book3e@got(r15)
+	ld	r15,__end_interrupts@got(r15)
+#else
 	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r14,interrupt_base_book3e)
 	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r15,__end_interrupts)
+#endif
 	cmpld	cr0,r10,r14
 	cmpld	cr1,r10,r15
 	blt+	cr0,1f


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn are

queue-4.11/powerpc-64e-fix-hang-when-debugging-programs-with-relocated-kernel.patch