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s390/kvm: do not rely on the ILC on kvm host protection fauls
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For most cases a protection exception in the host (e.g. copy
on write or dirty tracking) on the sie instruction will indicate
an instruction length of 4. Turns out that there are some corner
cases (e.g. runtime instrumentation) where this is not necessarily
true and the ILC is unpredictable.

Let's replace our 4 byte rewind_pad with 3 byte nops to prepare for
all possible ILCs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Christian Borntraeger authored and Martin Schwidefsky committed May 17, 2017
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19 changes: 13 additions & 6 deletions arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
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Expand Up @@ -231,12 +231,17 @@ ENTRY(sie64a)
lctlg %c1,%c1,__LC_USER_ASCE # load primary asce
.Lsie_done:
# some program checks are suppressing. C code (e.g. do_protection_exception)
# will rewind the PSW by the ILC, which is 4 bytes in case of SIE. Other
# instructions between sie64a and .Lsie_done should not cause program
# interrupts. So lets use a nop (47 00 00 00) as a landing pad.
# will rewind the PSW by the ILC, which is often 4 bytes in case of SIE. There
# are some corner cases (e.g. runtime instrumentation) where ILC is unpredictable.
# Other instructions between sie64a and .Lsie_done should not cause program
# interrupts. So lets use 3 nops as a landing pad for all possible rewinds.
# See also .Lcleanup_sie
.Lrewind_pad:
nop 0
.Lrewind_pad6:
nopr 7
.Lrewind_pad4:
nopr 7
.Lrewind_pad2:
nopr 7
.globl sie_exit
sie_exit:
lg %r14,__SF_EMPTY+8(%r15) # load guest register save area
Expand All @@ -249,7 +254,9 @@ sie_exit:
stg %r14,__SF_EMPTY+16(%r15) # set exit reason code
j sie_exit

EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad,.Lsie_fault)
EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad6,.Lsie_fault)
EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad4,.Lsie_fault)
EX_TABLE(.Lrewind_pad2,.Lsie_fault)
EX_TABLE(sie_exit,.Lsie_fault)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sie64a)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sie_exit)
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