[PATCH 5/5] arm: Enable IRQs before attempting to read user space in __und_usr
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Aug 28 07:34:24 EDT 2013
The Undef abort handler in the kernel reads the undefined instruction
from user space. If the page table was modified from another CPU, the
user access could fail and do_page_fault() will be executed with
interrupts disabled. This can potentially deadlock on ARM11MPCore or on
Cortex-A15 with erratum 798181 workaround enabled (both implying IPI for
TLB maintenance with page table lock held).
This patch enables the IRQs in __und_usr before attempting to read the
instruction from user space.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 11 +++++++----
arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/crunch-bits.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/vfp/entry.S | 3 +--
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index d40d0ef..c82ca96 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -411,6 +411,11 @@ __und_usr:
@
adr r9, BSYM(ret_from_exception)
+ @ IRQs must be enabled before attempting to read the instruction from
+ @ user space since that could cause a page/translation fault if the
+ @ page table was modified by another CPU.
+ enable_irq
+
tst r3, #PSR_T_BIT @ Thumb mode?
bne __und_usr_thumb
sub r4, r2, #4 @ ARM instr at LR - 4
@@ -514,7 +519,7 @@ ENDPROC(__und_usr)
* r9 = normal "successful" return address
* r10 = this threads thread_info structure
* lr = unrecognised instruction return address
- * IRQs disabled, FIQs enabled.
+ * IRQs enabled, FIQs enabled.
*/
@
@ Fall-through from Thumb-2 __und_usr
@@ -621,7 +626,6 @@ call_fpe:
#endif
do_fpe:
- enable_irq
ldr r4, .LCfp
add r10, r10, #TI_FPSTATE @ r10 = workspace
ldr pc, [r4] @ Call FP module USR entry point
@@ -649,8 +653,7 @@ __und_usr_fault_32:
b 1f
__und_usr_fault_16:
mov r1, #2
-1: enable_irq
- mov r0, sp
+1: mov r0, sp
adr lr, BSYM(ret_from_exception)
b __und_fault
ENDPROC(__und_usr_fault_32)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S b/arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S
index c52f3e2..da31170 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
* r9 = ret_from_exception
* lr = undefined instr exit
*
- * called from prefetch exception handler with interrupts disabled
+ * called from prefetch exception handler with interrupts enabled
*/
ENTRY(iwmmxt_task_enable)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/crunch-bits.S b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/crunch-bits.S
index 890c5df..85e7655 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/crunch-bits.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/crunch-bits.S
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
* r9 = ret_from_exception
* lr = undefined instr exit
*
- * called from prefetch exception handler with interrupts disabled
+ * called from prefetch exception handler with interrupts enabled
*/
ENTRY(crunch_task_enable)
inc_preempt_count r10, r3
diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/entry.S b/arch/arm/vfp/entry.S
index f0759e7..fe6ca57 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vfp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm/vfp/entry.S
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@
@ r9 = normal "successful" return address
@ r10 = this threads thread_info structure
@ lr = unrecognised instruction return address
-@ IRQs disabled.
+@ IRQs enabled.
@
ENTRY(do_vfp)
inc_preempt_count r10, r4
- enable_irq
ldr r4, .LCvfp
ldr r11, [r10, #TI_CPU] @ CPU number
add r10, r10, #TI_VFPSTATE @ r10 = workspace
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