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Michael Ellerman 8b08d4f972 powerpc/rtas: Fix RTAS MSR[HV] handling for Cell 
commit 91926d8b7e upstream.

The semi-recent changes to MSR handling when entering RTAS (firmware)
cause crashes on IBM Cell machines. An example trace:

  kernel tried to execute user page (2fff01a8) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
  Faulting instruction address: 0x2fff01a8
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  BE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=4 NUMA Cell
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.0.0-rc2-00433-gede0a8d3307a #207
  NIP:  000000002fff01a8 LR: 0000000000032608 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c0000000015236b0 TRAP: 0400   Tainted: G        W           (6.0.0-rc2-00433-gede0a8d3307a)
  MSR:  0000000008001002 <ME,RI>  CR: 00000000  XER: 20000000
  ...
  NIP 0x2fff01a8
  LR  0x32608
  Call Trace:
    0xc00000000143c5f8 (unreliable)
    .rtas_call+0x224/0x320
    .rtas_get_boot_time+0x70/0x150
    .read_persistent_clock64+0x114/0x140
    .read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset+0x24/0x80
    .timekeeping_init+0x40/0x29c
    .start_kernel+0x674/0x8f0
    start_here_common+0x1c/0x50

Unlike PAPR platforms where RTAS is only used in guests, on the IBM Cell
machines Linux runs with MSR[HV] set but also uses RTAS, provided by
SLOF.

Fix it by copying the MSR[HV] bit from the MSR value we've just read
using mfmsr into the value used for RTAS.

It seems like we could also fix it using an #ifdef CELL to set MSR[HV],
but that doesn't work because it's possible to build a single kernel
image that runs on both Cell native and pseries.

Fixes: b6b1c3ce06 ("powerpc/rtas: Keep MSR[RI] set when calling RTAS")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.19+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823115952.1203106-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2022-09-08 11:24:01 +02:00
arch powerpc/rtas: Fix RTAS MSR[HV] handling for Cell 2022-09-08 11:24:01 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix io hung due to missing commit_rqs 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: enforce SM2 signature use pkey algo 2022-08-17 15:16:17 +02:00
Documentation rtla: Fix tracer name 2022-09-05 10:31:31 +02:00
drivers staging: r8188eu: add firmware dependency 2022-09-08 11:24:01 +02:00
fs cachefiles: make on-demand request distribution fairer 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
include bpf: Allow helpers to accept pointers with a fixed size 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
init arm64: fix rodata=full 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix issue with io_write() not always undoing sb_start_write() 2022-08-31 17:18:17 +02:00
ipc ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed 2022-06-22 17:47:41 -05:00
kernel bpf: Do mark_chain_precision for ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
lib crypto: lib - remove unneeded selection of XOR_BLOCKS 2022-09-05 10:31:26 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
net net/smc: Remove redundant refcount increase 2022-09-08 11:24:00 +02:00
samples sample: bpf: xdp_router_ipv4: Allow the kernel to send arp requests 2022-08-17 15:14:25 +02:00
scripts kbuild: dummy-tools: avoid tmpdir leak in dummy gcc 2022-08-29 11:07:58 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() 2022-08-25 11:45:11 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: intel-nhlt: Correct the handling of fmt_config flexible array 2022-09-08 11:23:58 +02:00
tools testing: selftests: nft_flowtable.sh: use random netns names 2022-09-05 10:31:35 +02:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM 2022-08-25 11:45:05 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes for 5.19, part 4 2022-07-27 09:43:07 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ARM/PALM TREO SUPPORT orphan 2022-07-07 15:17:00 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS io_uring: move to separate directory 2022-08-17 15:14:20 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.19.7 2022-09-05 10:31:36 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.