[PATCH] arm64: kernel: Fix unmasked debug exceptions when restoring mdscr_el1

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Fri Aug 26 09:39:47 PDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:03:42PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Changes to make the resume from cpu_suspend() code behave more like
> secondary boot caused debug exceptions to be unmasked early by
> __cpu_setup(). We then go on to restore mdscr_el1 in cpu_do_resume(),
> potentially taking break or watch points based on uninitialised registers.

Another option would be moving enable_dbg() out of __cpu_setup() and
calling when it returns in the cold boot path, that would not change
much in terms of debugging but we would avoid fiddling about with
daif three times in the resume path just to restore it to what it
was on suspend entry :)

Thanks !
Lorenzo

> Mask debug exceptions in cpu_do_resume(), which is specific to resume
> from cpu_suspend(). Debug exceptions will be restored to their original
> state by local_dbg_restore() in cpu_suspend(), which runs after
> hw_breakpoint_restore() has re-initialised the other registers.
> 
> Reported-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Fixes: cabe1c81ea5b ("arm64: Change cpu_resume() to enable mmu early then access sleep_sp by va")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> #4.7
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> index 5bb61de23201..9d37e967fa19 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> @@ -100,7 +100,16 @@ ENTRY(cpu_do_resume)
>  
>  	msr	tcr_el1, x8
>  	msr	vbar_el1, x9
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * __cpu_setup() cleared MDSCR_EL1.MDE and friends, before unmasking
> +	 * debug exceptions. By restoring MDSCR_EL1 here, we may take a debug
> +	 * exception. Mask them until local_dbg_restore() in cpu_suspend()
> +	 * resets them.
> +	 */
> +	disable_dbg
>  	msr	mdscr_el1, x10
> +
>  	msr	sctlr_el1, x12
>  	/*
>  	 * Restore oslsr_el1 by writing oslar_el1
> -- 
> 2.8.0.rc3
> 



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