Commit 172f7aaa authored by Cyril Bur's avatar Cyril Bur Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception 



If the kernel disables transactional memory (TM) and userspace still
tries TM related actions (TM instructions or TM SPR accesses) TM aware
hardware will cause the kernel to take a facility unavailable
exception.

Add checks for the exception being caused by illegal TM access in
userspace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Rewrite comment entirely, bugs in it are mine]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent d986d6f4

arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c

+29 −0
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@@ -1390,6 +1390,13 @@ void vsx_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) 
}



#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64

static void tm_unavailable(struct pt_regs *regs)

{

	pr_emerg("Unrecoverable TM Unavailable Exception "

			"%lx at %lx\n", regs->trap, regs->nip);

	die("Unrecoverable TM Unavailable Exception", regs, SIGABRT);

}



void facility_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)

{

	static char *facility_strings[] = {
@@ -1469,6 +1476,27 @@ void facility_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) 
		return;

	}



	if (status == FSCR_TM_LG) {

		/*

		 * If we're here then the hardware is TM aware because it

		 * generated an exception with FSRM_TM set.

		 *

		 * If cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM) is false, then either firmware

		 * told us not to do TM, or the kernel is not built with TM

		 * support.

		 *

		 * If both of those things are true, then userspace can spam the

		 * console by triggering the printk() below just by continually

		 * doing tbegin (or any TM instruction). So in that case just

		 * send the process a SIGILL immediately.

		 */

		if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM))

			goto out;



		tm_unavailable(regs);

		return;

	}



	if ((status < ARRAY_SIZE(facility_strings)) &&

	    facility_strings[status])

		facility = facility_strings[status];
@@ -1481,6 +1509,7 @@ void facility_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) 
		"%sFacility '%s' unavailable, exception at 0x%lx, MSR=%lx\n",

		hv ? "Hypervisor " : "", facility, regs->nip, regs->msr);



out:

	if (user_mode(regs)) {

		_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip);

		return;