[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc/tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks" 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: Check for already reclaimed tasks

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt22.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 2682034aabc6fc07cf5fc088cca1e96f36a4e4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:44:45 +1100
Subject: powerpc/tm: Check for already reclaimed tasks

commit 7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142 upstream.

Currently we can hit a scenario where we'll tm_reclaim() twice.  This
results in a TM bad thing exception because the second reclaim occurs
when not in suspend mode.

The scenario in which this can happen is the following.  We attempt to
deliver a signal to userspace.  To do this we need obtain the stack
pointer to write the signal context.  To get this stack pointer we
must tm_reclaim() in case we need to use the checkpointed stack
pointer (see get_tm_stackpointer()).  Normally we'd then return
directly to userspace to deliver the signal without going through
__switch_to().

Unfortunatley, if at this point we get an error (such as a bad
userspace stack pointer), we need to exit the process.  The exit will
result in a __switch_to().  __switch_to() will attempt to save the
process state which results in another tm_reclaim().  This
tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state has
already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend mode.
Whee!

This patch checks the state of the MSR to ensure we are TM suspended
before we attempt the tm_reclaim().  If we've already saved the state
away, we should no longer be in TM suspend mode.  This has the
additional advantage of checking for a potential TM Bad Thing
exception.

Found using syscall fuzzer.

Fixes: fb09692e71f1 ("powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes")
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index be99774d3f44..7ecc2f9dfa86 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -553,6 +553,24 @@ static void tm_reclaim_thread(struct thread_struct *thr,
 		msr_diff &= MSR_FP | MSR_VEC | MSR_VSX | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1;
 	}

+	/*
+	 * Use the current MSR TM suspended bit to track if we have
+	 * checkpointed state outstanding.
+	 * On signal delivery, we'd normally reclaim the checkpointed
+	 * state to obtain stack pointer (see:get_tm_stackpointer()).
+	 * This will then directly return to userspace without going
+	 * through __switch_to(). However, if the stack frame is bad,
+	 * we need to exit this thread which calls __switch_to() which
+	 * will again attempt to reclaim the already saved tm state.
+	 * Hence we need to check that we've not already reclaimed
+	 * this state.
+	 * We do this using the current MSR, rather tracking it in
+	 * some specific thread_struct bit, as it has the additional
+	 * benifit of checking for a potential TM bad thing exception.
+	 */
+	if (!MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
+		return;
+
 	tm_reclaim(thr, thr->regs->msr, cause);

 	/* Having done the reclaim, we now have the checkpointed