linux-stable/arch
Michael Neuling 2b3f8e87cf powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions
When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with
the stack.  It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin.
The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that
returns before a tend.  In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed
transactional memory state.  If we write over this non transactionally or in
suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter
and stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be
valid anymore.

To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use
the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated
state.  This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be
written below the stack required for the rollback.  The transaction is aborted
becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the
signal will be rolled back anyway.

For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.

Tested with 64 and 32 bit signals

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-01 08:29:23 +10:00
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alpha Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
arc ARC: lazy dcache flush broke gdb in non-aliasing configs 2013-05-25 14:15:55 +05:30
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-05-25 10:05:24 -07:00
arm64 arm64: debug: fix mdscr.ss check when enabling debug exceptions 2013-05-17 18:24:19 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/linux-avr32 2013-05-22 18:06:57 -07:00
blackfin blackfin updates for Linux 3.10 2013-05-10 07:21:16 -07:00
c6x dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs() 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
cris - Lots of cleanups from Artem, including deletion of some obsolete drivers 2013-05-09 10:15:46 -07:00
frv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
h8300 We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, 2013-05-05 10:58:06 -07:00
hexagon Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
ia64 Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
m32r Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
m68k m68k: Update defconfigs for v3.9 2013-05-28 10:22:06 +02:00
metag Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
microblaze microblaze: Reversed logic in futex cmpxchg 2013-05-27 12:29:35 +02:00
mips USB fixes for 3.10-rc2 2013-05-23 09:23:32 -07:00
mn10300 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
openrisc Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
parisc parisc: fix irq stack on UP and SMP 2013-05-24 23:29:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions 2013-06-01 08:29:23 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-05-21 09:36:46 -07:00
score score: remove redundant kcore_list entries 2013-05-25 10:27:27 -07:00
sh Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-10 09:21:05 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2013-05-09 14:34:58 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-07 15:14:53 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-10 09:21:05 -07:00
x86 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-05-28 10:09:38 -07:00
xtensa Xtensa patchset for v3.10-rc1 2013-05-09 14:38:16 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:04:00 -07:00