[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP

Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c

@@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ int dump_spe(struct pt_regs *regs, elf_vrregset_t *evrregs)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPE */
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 /*
  * If we are doing lazy switching of CPU state (FP, altivec or SPE),
  * and the current task has some state, discard it.
  */
-static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
+void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
 {
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 	preempt_disable();
 	if (last_task_used_math == current)
 		last_task_used_math = NULL;
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
 		last_task_used_spe = NULL;
 #endif
 	preempt_enable();
-#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 int set_dabr(unsigned long dabr)
 {

arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c

@@ -497,6 +497,15 @@ static long restore_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs,
 	if (err)
 		return 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do this before updating the thread state in
+	 * current->thread.fpr/vr/evr.  That way, if we get preempted
+	 * and another task grabs the FPU/Altivec/SPE, it won't be
+	 * tempted to save the current CPU state into the thread_struct
+	 * and corrupt what we are writing there.
+	 */
+	discard_lazy_cpu_state();
+
 	/* force the process to reload the FP registers from
 	   current->thread when it next does FP instructions */
 	regs->msr &= ~(MSR_FP | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1);
@@ -538,18 +547,6 @@ static long restore_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs,
 		return 1;
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPE */
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
-	preempt_disable();
-	if (last_task_used_math == current)
-		last_task_used_math = NULL;
-	if (last_task_used_altivec == current)
-		last_task_used_altivec = NULL;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPE
-	if (last_task_used_spe == current)
-		last_task_used_spe = NULL;
-#endif
-	preempt_enable();
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 

arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c

@@ -207,10 +207,20 @@ static long restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set, int sig,
 
 	if (!sig)
 		regs->gpr[13] = save_r13;
-	err |= __copy_from_user(&current->thread.fpr, &sc->fp_regs, FP_REGS_SIZE);
 	if (set != NULL)
 		err |=  __get_user(set->sig[0], &sc->oldmask);
 
+	/*
+	 * Do this before updating the thread state in
+	 * current->thread.fpr/vr.  That way, if we get preempted
+	 * and another task grabs the FPU/Altivec, it won't be
+	 * tempted to save the current CPU state into the thread_struct
+	 * and corrupt what we are writing there.
+	 */
+	discard_lazy_cpu_state();
+
+	err |= __copy_from_user(&current->thread.fpr, &sc->fp_regs, FP_REGS_SIZE);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
 	err |= __get_user(v_regs, &sc->v_regs);
 	err |= __get_user(msr, &sc->gp_regs[PT_MSR]);
@@ -229,14 +239,6 @@ static long restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, sigset_t *set, int sig,
 		current->thread.vrsave = 0;
 #endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
-	preempt_disable();
-	if (last_task_used_math == current)
-		last_task_used_math = NULL;
-	if (last_task_used_altivec == current)
-		last_task_used_altivec = NULL;
-	preempt_enable();
-#endif
 	/* Force reload of FP/VEC */
 	regs->msr &= ~(MSR_FP | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1 | MSR_VEC);
 

include/asm-powerpc/system.h

@@ -133,6 +133,14 @@ extern int fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *);
 extern void cvt_fd(float *from, double *to, struct thread_struct *thread);
 extern void cvt_df(double *from, float *to, struct thread_struct *thread);
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+extern void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void);
+#else
+static inline void discard_lazy_cpu_state(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
 extern void flush_altivec_to_thread(struct task_struct *);
 #else