[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction" 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/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction

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 b909b05d5de3e3cab518ea1cb2bcaeb70837a56a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:21:40 +1100
Subject: powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transaction

commit 621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 upstream.

When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new
thread.  This results in a TM bad thing (program check) when the new process is
switched in as the kernel does a tmrechkpt with TEXASR FS not set.  Also, since
R1 is from userspace, we trigger the bad kernel stack pointer detection.  So we
end up with something like this:

   Bad kernel stack pointer 0 at c0000000000404fc
   cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000003ffefd40]
       pc: c0000000000404fc: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
       lr: 0000000000000000
       sp: 0
      msr: 9000000100201030
     current = 0xc000001dd1417c30
     paca    = 0xc00000000fe00800   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
       pid   = 0, comm = swapper/2
   WARNING: exception is not recoverable, can't continue

The below fixes this by flushing the TM state before we copy the task_struct to
the clone.  To do this we go through the tmreclaim patch, which removes the
checkpointed registers from the CPU and transitions the CPU out of TM suspend
mode.  Hence we need to call tmrechkpt after to restore the checkpointed state
and the TM mode for the current task.

To make this fail from userspace is simply:
	tbegin
	li	r0, 2
	sc
	<boom>

Kudos to Adhemerval Zanella Neto for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
cc: Adhemerval Zanella Neto <azanella at br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 8083be2..273e9ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -926,6 +926,15 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 	flush_altivec_to_thread(src);
 	flush_vsx_to_thread(src);
 	flush_spe_to_thread(src);
+	/*
+	 * Flush TM state out so we can copy it.  __switch_to_tm() does this
+	 * flush but it removes the checkpointed state from the current CPU and
+	 * transitions the CPU out of TM mode.  Hence we need to call
+	 * tm_recheckpoint_new_task() (on the same task) to restore the
+	 * checkpointed state back and the TM mode.
+	 */
+	__switch_to_tm(src);
+	tm_recheckpoint_new_task(src);

 	*dst = *src;

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1.9.0