Patch "MIPS: fix FP mode selection in lieu of .MIPS.abiflags data" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

MIPS: fix FP mode selection in lieu of .MIPS.abiflags data

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mips-fix-fp-mode-selection-in-lieu-of-.mips.abiflags-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 11:52:32 +0100
Subject: MIPS: fix FP mode selection in lieu of .MIPS.abiflags data

From: Paul Burton <[email protected]>

commit 620b155034570f577470cf5309f741bac6a6e32b upstream.

Commit 46490b572544 ("MIPS: kernel: elf: Improve the overall ABI and FPU mode checks") reworked the ELF FP ABI mode selection logic, but when CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT is enabled it breaks the use of binaries which have no PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program header & associated .MIPS.abiflags section.

A default mode is selected based upon whether the ELF contains MIPS32 or MIPS64 code, but that selection is made in arch_elf_pt_proc. arch_elf_pt_proc only executes when a PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program header is found. If one is not found then arch_elf_pt_proc is never called, and no default overall_fp_mode value is selected. When arch_check_elf is called, both abi0 & abi1 are MIPS_ABI_FP_UNKNOWN which leads to both prog_req & interp_req being set to none_req. none_req matches none of the conditions for mode selection at the end of arch_check_elf, so overall_fp_mode is left untouched. Finally once mips_set_personality_fp is called the BUG() in the default case is then hit & the kernel likely panics.

Fix this by moving the selection of a default overall mode to the start of arch_check_elf, which runs once per ELF executed regardless of whether it has a PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program header.

Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9978/

---
 arch/mips/kernel/elf.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

@@ -76,14 +76,6 @@ int arch_elf_pt_proc(void *_ehdr, void *
 
 	/* Lets see if this is an O32 ELF */
 	if (ehdr32->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32) {
-		/* FR = 1 for N32 */
-		if (ehdr32->e_flags & EF_MIPS_ABI2)
-			state->overall_fp_mode = FP_FR1;
-		else
-			/* Set a good default FPU mode for O32 */
-			state->overall_fp_mode = cpu_has_mips_r6 ?
-				FP_FRE : FP_FR0;
-
 		if (ehdr32->e_flags & EF_MIPS_FP64) {
 			/*
 			 * Set MIPS_ABI_FP_OLD_64 for EF_MIPS_FP64. We will override it

@@ -104,9 +96,6 @@ int arch_elf_pt_proc(void *_ehdr, void *
 				  (char *)&abiflags,
 				  sizeof(abiflags));
 	} else {
-		/* FR=1 is really the only option for 64-bit */
-		state->overall_fp_mode = FP_FR1;
-
 		if (phdr64->p_type != PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS)
 			return 0;
 		if (phdr64->p_filesz < sizeof(abiflags))

@@ -147,6 +136,7 @@ int arch_check_elf(void *_ehdr, bool has
 	struct elf32_hdr *ehdr = _ehdr;
 	struct mode_req prog_req, interp_req;
 	int fp_abi, interp_fp_abi, abi0, abi1, max_abi;
+	bool is_mips64;
 
 	if (!config_enabled(CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT))
 		return 0;

@@ -162,10 +152,22 @@ int arch_check_elf(void *_ehdr, bool has
 		abi0 = abi1 = fp_abi;
 	}
 
-	/* ABI limits. O32 = FP_64A, N32/N64 = FP_SOFT */
-	max_abi = ((ehdr->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32) &&
-		   (!(ehdr->e_flags & EF_MIPS_ABI2))) ?
-		MIPS_ABI_FP_64A : MIPS_ABI_FP_SOFT;
+	is_mips64 = (ehdr->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) ||
+		    (ehdr->e_flags & EF_MIPS_ABI2);
+
+	if (is_mips64) {
+		/* MIPS64 code always uses FR=1, thus the default is easy */
+		state->overall_fp_mode = FP_FR1;
+
+		/* Disallow access to the various FPXX & FP64 ABIs */
+		max_abi = MIPS_ABI_FP_SOFT;
+	} else {
+		/* Default to a mode capable of running code expecting FR=0 */
+		state->overall_fp_mode = cpu_has_mips_r6 ? FP_FRE : FP_FR0;
+
+		/* Allow all ABIs we know about */
+		max_abi = MIPS_ABI_FP_64A;
+	}
 
 	if ((abi0 > max_abi && abi0 != MIPS_ABI_FP_UNKNOWN) ||
 	    (abi1 > max_abi && abi1 != MIPS_ABI_FP_UNKNOWN))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.0/mips-fix-fp-mode-selection-in-lieu-of-.mips.abiflags-data.patch