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authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2018-03-05 19:18:47 +0000
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2018-03-06 09:19:35 +0100
commitd3f468963cd6fd6d2aa5e26aed8b24232096d0e1 (patch)
tree93d3c3e5bfddc4a0de36b04dd2b5ff098ed1c2b6 /arch
parent61e18270f604c744ed9f8f1b740022516f9726f8 (diff)
downloadlinux-d3f468963cd6fd6d2aa5e26aed8b24232096d0e1.tar.gz
s390/entry.S: fix spurious zeroing of r0
when a system call is interrupted we might call the critical section
cleanup handler that re-does some of the operations. When we are between
.Lsysc_vtime and .Lsysc_do_svc we might also redo the saving of the
problem state registers r0-r7:

.Lcleanup_system_call:
[...]
0:      # update accounting time stamp
        mvc     __LC_LAST_UPDATE_TIMER(8),__LC_SYNC_ENTER_TIMER
        # set up saved register r11
        lg      %r15,__LC_KERNEL_STACK
        la      %r9,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(%r15)
        stg     %r9,24(%r11)            # r11 pt_regs pointer
        # fill pt_regs
        mvc     __PT_R8(64,%r9),__LC_SAVE_AREA_SYNC
--->    stmg    %r0,%r7,__PT_R0(%r9)

The problem is now, that we might have already zeroed out r0.
The fix is to move the zeroing of r0 after sysc_do_svc.

Reported-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 7041d28115e91 ("s390: scrub registers on kernel entry and KVM exit")
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/entry.S4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S b/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
index 73492461c454..a5621ea6d123 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
@@ -427,13 +427,13 @@ ENTRY(system_call)
 	UPDATE_VTIME %r8,%r9,__LC_SYNC_ENTER_TIMER
 	BPENTER __TI_flags(%r12),_TIF_ISOLATE_BP
 	stmg	%r0,%r7,__PT_R0(%r11)
-	# clear user controlled register to prevent speculative use
-	xgr	%r0,%r0
 	mvc	__PT_R8(64,%r11),__LC_SAVE_AREA_SYNC
 	mvc	__PT_PSW(16,%r11),__LC_SVC_OLD_PSW
 	mvc	__PT_INT_CODE(4,%r11),__LC_SVC_ILC
 	stg	%r14,__PT_FLAGS(%r11)
 .Lsysc_do_svc:
+	# clear user controlled register to prevent speculative use
+	xgr	%r0,%r0
 	# load address of system call table
 	lg	%r10,__THREAD_sysc_table(%r13,%r12)
 	llgh	%r8,__PT_INT_CODE+2(%r11)