linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 237/305] xtensa: enable coprocessors that are being flushed

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Date:   Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:45:08 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Max Filippov" <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 237/305] xtensa: enable coprocessors that are being
 flushed

3.16.63-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>

commit 2958b66694e018c552be0b60521fec27e8d12988 upstream.

coprocessor_flush_all may be called from a context of a thread that is
different from the thread being flushed. In that case contents of the
cpenable special register may not match ti->cpenable of the target
thread, resulting in unhandled coprocessor exception in the kernel
context.
Set cpenable special register to the ti->cpenable of the target register
for the duration of the flush and restore it afterwards.
This fixes the following crash caused by coprocessor register inspection
in native gdb:

  (gdb) p/x $w0
  Illegal instruction in kernel: sig: 9 [#1] PREEMPT
  Call Trace:
    ___might_sleep+0x184/0x1a4
    __might_sleep+0x41/0xac
    exit_signals+0x14/0x218
    do_exit+0xc9/0x8b8
    die+0x99/0xa0
    do_illegal_instruction+0x18/0x6c
    common_exception+0x77/0x77
    coprocessor_flush+0x16/0x3c
    arch_ptrace+0x46c/0x674
    sys_ptrace+0x2ce/0x3b4
    system_call+0x54/0x80
    common_exception+0x77/0x77
  note: gdb[100] exited with preempt_count 1
  Killed

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
@@ -83,18 +83,21 @@ void coprocessor_release_all(struct thre
 
 void coprocessor_flush_all(struct thread_info *ti)
 {
-	unsigned long cpenable;
+	unsigned long cpenable, old_cpenable;
 	int i;
 
 	preempt_disable();
 
+	RSR_CPENABLE(old_cpenable);
 	cpenable = ti->cpenable;
+	WSR_CPENABLE(cpenable);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < XCHAL_CP_MAX; i++) {
 		if ((cpenable & 1) != 0 && coprocessor_owner[i] == ti)
 			coprocessor_flush(ti, i);
 		cpenable >>= 1;
 	}
+	WSR_CPENABLE(old_cpenable);
 
 	preempt_enable();
 }