[PATCH 02/14] arm64: entry: unmask IRQ+FIQ after EL0 handling

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon May 10 08:56:09 PDT 2021


For non-fatal exceptions taken from EL0, we expect that at some point
during exception handling it is possible to return to a regular process
context with all exceptions unmasked (e.g. as we do in
do_notify_resume()), and we generally aim to unmask exceptions wherever
possible.

While handling SError and debug exceptions from EL0, we need to leave
some exceptions masked during handling. Handling SError requires us to
mask SError (which also requires masking IRQ+FIQ), and handing debug
exceptions requires us to mask debug (which also requires masking
SError+IRQ+FIQ).

Once do_serror() or do_debug_exception() has returned, we no longer need
to mask exceptions, and can unmask them all, which is what we did prior
to commit:

  9034f6251572a474 ("arm64: Do not enable IRQs for ct_user_exit")

... where we had to mask IRQs as for context_tracking_user_exit()
expected IRQs to be masked.

Since then, we realised that our context tracking wasn't entirely
correct, and reworked the entry code to fix this. As of commit:

  23529049c6842382 ("arm64: entry: fix non-NMI user<->kernel transitions")

... we consistently call context_tracking_user_exit() later as part of
ret_to_user. Prior to this we can transiently unmask exceptions (e.g. as
part of do_notify_resume), and we always mask all exceptions prior to
calling context_tracking_user_exit().

Thus, there's no longer a reason to leave IRQs or FIQs masked at the end
of el0_dbg() or el0_error(), so let's bring these into line with other
EL0 exceptions handlers and unmask all exceptions after the handler is
finished.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
index 340d04e13617..02be1517e08f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void noinstr el0_dbg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr)
 
 	enter_from_user_mode();
 	do_debug_exception(far, esr, regs);
-	local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX_NOIRQ);
+	local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX);
 }
 
 static void noinstr el0_svc(struct pt_regs *regs)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 3513984a88bd..6b2f6f5c5bb8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ el0_error_naked:
 	mov	x0, sp
 	mov	x1, x25
 	bl	do_serror
-	enable_da
+	enable_daif
 	b	ret_to_user
 SYM_CODE_END(el0_error)
 
-- 
2.11.0




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