There was a very small race window where resume to kernel mode from a
Exception Path (or pure kernel mode which is true for most of ARC
exceptions anyways), was not disabling interrupts in restore_regs,
clobbering the exception regs
Anton found the culprit call flow (after many sleepless nights)
| 1. we got a Trap from user land
| 2. started to service it.
| 3. While doing some stuff on user-land memory (I think it is padzero()),
| we got a DataTlbMiss
| 4. On return from it we are taking "resume_kernel_mode" path
| 5. NEED_RESHED is not set, so we go to "return from exception" path in
| restore regs.
| 6. there seems to be IRQ happening
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14
Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: Francois Bedard <Francois.Bedard@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
resume_kernel_mode:
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
-
- ; This is a must for preempt_schedule_irq()
+ ; Disable Interrupts from this point on
+ ; CONFIG_PREEMPT: This is a must for preempt_schedule_irq()
+ ; !CONFIG_PREEMPT: To ensure restore_regs is intr safe
IRQ_DISABLE r9
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+
; Can't preempt if preemption disabled
GET_CURR_THR_INFO_FROM_SP r10
ld r8, [r10, THREAD_INFO_PREEMPT_COUNT]