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[Bug 1771439] Re: [LTC Test] Ubuntu 18.04: tm_sigreturn failed on P8 compat mode 16.04.04 guest

 

I built a test kernel with commit 78a3e8889b4b6b99775ed954696ff3e017f5d19b.  The test kernel can be downloaded from:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1771439

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Note about installing test kernels:
• If the test kernel is prior to 4.15(Bionic) you need to install the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.
• If the test kernel is 4.15(Bionic) or newer, you need to install the linux-image-unsigned, linux-modules and linux-modules-extra .deb packages.

Thanks in advance!


** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage) => Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)

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Title:
  [LTC Test] Ubuntu 18.04:  tm_sigreturn failed on P8 compat mode
  16.04.04 guest

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Triaged
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  This test fails in the same way on a P8 host, so it is nothing to do
  with P9.

  There have been many TM bugs fixed upstream since 4.4. I would suggest
  starting with commit 044215d145a7 ("powerpc/tm: Fix illegal TM state
  in signal handler", 2017-08-22) and see if that helps.

  The bad thing exception is being raised when executing the following
  line:

           c00000000004fcfc:       b0 04 03 e8     ld      r0,1200(r3) 
    ->   c00000000004fd00:       a6 23 02 7c     mtspr   130,r0

  Which is basically restoring TEXASR in the thread.

  
  ISA says "These registers can be written only when in Non-transactional state" and the MSR is set to be transactional (suspended):

  MSR: 8000000300201033 [ME][RI][IR][DR][LE][SF][HTM][TSU]

  That explains why we are getting the "bad thing exception". A mtspr is
  being called with a transaction suspended.

  I think we need the following commit to have this fixed:

  commit 78a3e8889b4b6b99775ed954696ff3e017f5d19b
  Author: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Tue Aug 23 10:46:17 2016 +1000

      powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal frames
      
      Userspace can begin and suspend a transaction within the signal
      handler which means they might enter sys_rt_sigreturn() with the
      processor in suspended state.
      
      sys_rt_sigreturn() wants to restore process context (which may have
      been in a transaction before signal delivery). To do this it must
      restore TM SPRS. To achieve this, any transaction initiated within the
      signal frame must be discarded in order to be able to restore TM SPRs
      as TM SPRs can only be manipulated non-transactionally..
      >From the PowerPC ISA:
        TM Bad Thing Exception [Category: Transactional Memory]
         An attempt is made to execute a mtspr targeting a TM register in
         other than Non-transactional state.
      
      Not doing so results in a TM Bad Thing:
      [12045.221359] Kernel BUG at c000000000050a40 [verbose debug info unavailable]
      [12045.221470] Unexpected TM Bad Thing exception at c000000000050a40 (msr 0x201033)
      [12045.221540] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
      [12045.221586] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
      [12045.221634] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE
       nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
       xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc ebtable_filter
       ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_hv kvm
       uio_pdrv_genirq ipmi_powernv uio powernv_rng ipmi_msghandler autofs4 ses enclosure
       scsi_transport_sas bnx2x ipr mdio libcrc32c
      [12045.222167] CPU: 68 PID: 6178 Comm: sigreturnpanic Not tainted 4.7.0 #34
      [12045.222224] task: c0000000fce38600 ti: c0000000fceb4000 task.ti: c0000000fceb4000
      [12045.222293] NIP: c000000000050a40 LR: c0000000000163bc CTR: 0000000000000000
      [12045.222361] REGS: c0000000fceb7ac0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted (4.7.0)
      [12045.222418] MSR: 9000000300201033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[SE]> CR: 28444280  XER: 20000000
      [12045.222625] CFAR: c0000000000163b8 SOFTE: 0 PACATMSCRATCH: 900000014280f033
      GPR00: 01100000b8000001 c0000000fceb7d40 c00000000139c100 c0000000fce390d0
      GPR04: 900000034280f033 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
      GPR08: 0000000000000000 b000000000001033 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
      GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002926400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
      GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
      GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
      GPR24: 0000000000000000 00003ffff98cadd0 00003ffff98cb470 0000000000000000
      GPR28: 900000034280f033 c0000000fceb7ea0 0000000000000001 c0000000fce390d0
      [12045.223535] NIP [c000000000050a40] tm_restore_sprs+0xc/0x1c
      [12045.223584] LR [c0000000000163bc] tm_recheckpoint+0x5c/0xa0
      [12045.223630] Call Trace:
      [12045.223655] [c0000000fceb7d80] [c000000000026e74] sys_rt_sigreturn+0x494/0x6c0
      [12045.223738] [c0000000fceb7e30] [c0000000000092e0] system_call+0x38/0x108
      [12045.223806] Instruction dump:
      [12045.223841] 7c800164 4e800020 7c0022a6 f80304a8 7c0222a6 f80304b0 7c0122a6 f80304b8
      [12045.223955] 4e800020 e80304a8 7c0023a6 e80304b0 <7c0223a6> e80304b8 7c0123a6 4e800020
      [12045.224074] ---[ end trace cb8002ee240bae76 ]---
      
      It isn't clear exactly if there is really a use case for userspace
      returning with a suspended transaction, however, doing so doesn't (on
      its own) constitute a bad frame. As such, this patch simply discards
      the transactional state of the context calling the sigreturn and
      continues.
      
      Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx>
      Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Acked-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@xxxxxxxxx>
      Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

  diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
  index ba0a2a4..e32fdbb 100644
  --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
  +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
  @@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ signal will be rolled back anyway.
   For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
   normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.
   
  +Any transaction initiated inside a sighandler and suspended on return
  +from the sighandler to the kernel will get reclaimed and discarded.
   
   Failure cause codes used by kernel
   ==================================
  diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
  index b6aa378..a7daf74 100644
  --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
  +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
  @@ -1226,7 +1226,21 @@ long sys_rt_sigreturn(int r3, int r4, int r5, int r6, int r7, int r8,
   		(regs->gpr[1] + __SIGNAL_FRAMESIZE + 16);
   	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, rt_sf, sizeof(*rt_sf)))
   		goto bad;
  +
   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
  +	/*
  +	 * If there is a transactional state then throw it away.
  +	 * The purpose of a sigreturn is to destroy all traces of the
  +	 * signal frame, this includes any transactional state created
  +	 * within in. We only check for suspended as we can never be
  +	 * active in the kernel, we are active, there is nothing better to
  +	 * do than go ahead and Bad Thing later.
  +	 * The cause is not important as there will never be a
  +	 * recheckpoint so it's not user visible.
  +	 */
  +	if (MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
  +		tm_reclaim_current(0);
  +
   	if (__get_user(tmp, &rt_sf->uc.uc_link))
   		goto bad;
   	uc_transact = (struct ucontext __user *)(uintptr_t)tmp;
  diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
  index 7e49984..70409bb 100644
  --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
  +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
  @@ -676,7 +676,21 @@ int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4, unsigned long r5,
   	if (__copy_from_user(&set, &uc->uc_sigmask, sizeof(set)))
   		goto badframe;
   	set_current_blocked(&set);
  +
   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
  +	/*
  +	 * If there is a transactional state then throw it away.
  +	 * The purpose of a sigreturn is to destroy all traces of the
  +	 * signal frame, this includes any transactional state created
  +	 * within in. We only check for suspended as we can never be
  +	 * active in the kernel, we are active, there is nothing better to
  +	 * do than go ahead and Bad Thing later.
  +	 * The cause is not important as there will never be a
  +	 * recheckpoint so it's not user visible.
  +	 */
  +	if (MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
  +		tm_reclaim_current(0);
  +
   	if (__get_user(msr, &uc->uc_mcontext.gp_regs[PT_MSR]))
   		goto badframe;
   	if (MSR_TM_ACTIVE(msr)) {

  == Breno Leitao <brenohl@xxxxxxxxxx>  ==
  That is exactly the commit id that solves the problem.

  I was able to cherry pick 78a3e8889b4b6b99775ed954696ff3e017f5d19b on
  top of Ubuntu-4.4.0-124.148 and now the code works fine.

  
  1604 ?    sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
  1604 ?    ./tm-sigreturn
  test: tm_sigreturn
  tags: git_version:v4.17-rc5-0-g67b8d5c
  success: tm_sigreturn
  1604 ?    dmesg
  1604 ?

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