Patch "powerpc/kexec: Fix radix to hash kexec due to IAMR/AMOR" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree
Subsystems (2)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/kexec: Fix radix to hash kexec due to IAMR/AMOR
to the 4.12-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:
powerpc-kexec-fix-radix-to-hash-kexec-due-to-iamr-amor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
Quoted 1 line
From
1e2a516e89fc412a754327522ab271b42f99c6b4Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:57:26 +1000
Subject: powerpc/kexec: Fix radix to hash kexec due to IAMR/AMOR
From: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
commit 1e2a516e89fc412a754327522ab271b42f99c6b4 upstream.
This patch fixes a crash seen while doing a kexec from radix mode to hash mode. Key 0 is special in hash and used in the RPN by default, we set the key values to 0 today. In radix mode key 0 is used to control supervisor<->user access. In hash key 0 is used by default, so the first instruction after the switch causes a crash on kexec.
Commit 3b10d0095a1e ("powerpc/mm/radix: Prevent kernel execution of user space") introduced the setting of IAMR and AMOR values to prevent execution of user mode instructions from supervisor mode. We need to clean up these SPR's on kexec.
--- arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S +12 -0
@@ -614,6 +614,18 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence) li r0,0 std r0,16(r1) +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION + /* + * This is the best time to turn AMR/IAMR off. + * key 0 is used in radix for supervisor<->user + * protection, but on hash key 0 is reserved + * ideally we want to enter with a clean state. + * NOTE, we rely on r0 being 0 from above. + */ + mtspr SPRN_IAMR,r0 + mtspr SPRN_AMOR,r0 +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300) + /* save regs for local vars on new stack. * yes, we won't go back, but ... */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.12/powerpc-kexec-fix-radix-to-hash-kexec-due-to-iamr-amor.patch