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Commit 251959e4 authored by Russell Currey's avatar Russell Currey Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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powerpc/security: Use a mutex for interrupt exit code patching

commit 3c12b4df upstream.

The mitigation-patching.sh script in the powerpc selftests toggles
all mitigations on and off simultaneously, revealing that rfi_flush
and stf_barrier cannot safely operate at the same time due to races
in updating the static key.

On some systems, the static key code throws a warning and the kernel
remains functional.  On others, the kernel will hang or crash.

Fix this by slapping on a mutex.

Fixes: 13799748

 ("powerpc/64: use interrupt restart table to speed up return from interrupt")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Acked-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027072410.40950-1-ruscur@russell.cc
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0795f5e7
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