linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 45/46] s390/kvm: do not rely on the ILC on kvm host protection fauls

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Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:53:04 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 45/46] s390/kvm: do not rely on the ILC on kvm host protection fauls

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

commit c0e7bb38c07cbd8269549ee0a0566021a3c729de upstream.

For most cases a protection exception in the host (e.g. copy
on write or dirty tracking) on the sie instruction will indicate
an instruction length of 4. Turns out that there are some corner
cases (e.g. runtime instrumentation) where this is not necessarily
true and the ILC is unpredictable.

Let's replace our 4 byte rewind_pad with 3 byte nops to prepare for
all possible ILCs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/kernel/entry.S |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
@@ -229,12 +229,17 @@ ENTRY(sie64a)
 	lctlg	%c1,%c1,__LC_USER_ASCE		# load primary asce
 .Lsie_done:
 # some program checks are suppressing. C code (e.g. do_protection_exception)
-# will rewind the PSW by the ILC, which is 4 bytes in case of SIE. Other
-# instructions between sie64a and .Lsie_done should not cause program
-# interrupts. So lets use a nop (47 00 00 00) as a landing pad.
+# will rewind the PSW by the ILC, which is often 4 bytes in case of SIE. There
+# are some corner cases (e.g. runtime instrumentation) where ILC is unpredictable.
+# Other instructions between sie64a and .Lsie_done should not cause program
+# interrupts. So lets use 3 nops as a landing pad for all possible rewinds.
 # See also .Lcleanup_sie
-.Lrewind_pad:
-	nop	0
+.Lrewind_pad6:
+	nopr	7
+.Lrewind_pad4:
+	nopr	7
+.Lrewind_pad2:
+	nopr	7
 	.globl sie_exit
 sie_exit:
 	lg	%r14,__SF_EMPTY+8(%r15)		# load guest register save area
@@ -247,7 +252,9 @@ sie_exit:
 	stg	%r14,__SF_EMPTY+16(%r15)	# set exit reason code
 	j	sie_exit
 
-	EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad,.Lsie_fault)
+	EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad6,.Lsie_fault)
+	EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad4,.Lsie_fault)
+	EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad2,.Lsie_fault)
 	EX_TABLE(sie_exit,.Lsie_fault)
 #endif