[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 0ee75627e5762837c173557c975e11d79260cdb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:46:21 +1000
Subject: powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork()

commit 3df48c981d5a9610e02e9270b1bc4274fb536710 upstream.

In commit 330a1eb "Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s" I messed up
clear_task_ebb(). It clears some but not all of the task's Event Based
Branch (EBB) registers when we duplicate a task struct.

That allows a child task to observe the EBBHR & EBBRR of its parent,
which it should not be able to do.

Fix it by clearing EBBHR & EBBRR.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 671c58f4eb44..64ff06b14630 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ static inline void clear_task_ebb(struct task_struct *t)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
     /* EBB perf events are not inherited, so clear all EBB state. */
+    t->thread.ebbrr = 0;
+    t->thread.ebbhr = 0;
     t->thread.bescr = 0;
     t->thread.mmcr2 = 0;
     t->thread.mmcr0 = 0;
--
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