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powerpc: Avoid discarding flags in system_call_exception()
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:06:51 +0000 (13:06 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:06:44 +0000 (00:06 +0100)
commite8662bbfa70d89b3b242a39de585dc0fe13e85e7
treecb752f27a73706c78c9407156ca579ecc95dc5ba
parent84622b336c54a4fca2d63b4454ae9176d19cb67c
powerpc: Avoid discarding flags in system_call_exception()

Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Thus, when setting flags we must use
an atomic operation rather than a plain read-modify-write sequence, as a
plain read-modify-write may discard flags which are concurrently set by a
remote thread, e.g.

// task A // task B
tmp = A->thread_info.flags;
set_tsk_thread_flag(A, NEWFLAG_B);
tmp |= NEWFLAG_A;
A->thread_info.flags = tmp;

arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c's system_call_exception() sets
_TIF_RESTOREALL in the thread info flags with a read-modify-write, which
may result in other flags being discarded.

Elsewhere in the file it uses clear_bits() to atomically remove flag bits,
so use set_bits() here for consistency with those.

There may be reasons (e.g. instrumentation) that prevent the use of
set_thread_flag() and clear_thread_flag() here, which would otherwise be
preferable.

Fixes: a90ba97cb701f4c5 ("powerpc/64s: system call rfscv workaround for TM bugs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Eirik Fuller <efuller@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-10-mark.rutland@arm.com
arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c