[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "powerpc: Handle unaligned ldbrx/stdbrx" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc: Handle unaligned ldbrx/stdbrx

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From addbdc9bf8d3f034b9f552865b1b43e18847526d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 02:01:19 +1000
Subject: powerpc: Handle unaligned ldbrx/stdbrx

commit 230aef7a6a23b6166bd4003bfff5af23c9bd381f upstream.

Normally when we haven't implemented an alignment handler for
a load or store instruction the process will be terminated.

The alignment handler uses the DSISR (or a pseudo one) to locate
the right handler. Unfortunately ldbrx and stdbrx overlap lfs and
stfs so we incorrectly think ldbrx is an lfs and stdbrx is an
stfs.

This bug is particularly nasty - instead of terminating the
process we apply an incorrect fixup and continue on.

With more and more overlapping instructions we should stop
creating a pseudo DSISR and index using the instruction directly,
but for now add a special case to catch ldbrx/stdbrx.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
index ee5b690..52e5758 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
@@ -764,6 +764,16 @@ int fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	nb = aligninfo[instr].len;
 	flags = aligninfo[instr].flags;

+	/* ldbrx/stdbrx overlap lfs/stfs in the DSISR unfortunately */
+	if (IS_XFORM(instruction) && ((instruction >> 1) & 0x3ff) == 532) {
+		nb = 8;
+		flags = LD+SW;
+	} else if (IS_XFORM(instruction) &&
+		   ((instruction >> 1) & 0x3ff) == 660) {
+		nb = 8;
+		flags = ST+SW;
+	}
+
 	/* Byteswap little endian loads and stores */
 	swiz = 0;
 	if (regs->msr & MSR_LE) {
--
1.8.1.2