Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32s: Fix CPU wake-up from sleep mode

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 10:42:04 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Commit f7354ccac844 ("powerpc/32: Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO and
> rename TI_CPU") broke the CPU wake-up from sleep mode (i.e. when
> _TLF_SLEEPING is set) by delaying the tovirt(r2, r2).
> 
> This is because r2 is not restored by fast_exception_return. It used
> to work (by chance ?) because CPU wake-up interrupt never comes from
> user, so r2 is expected to point to 'current' on return.
> 
> Commit e2fb9f544431 ("powerpc/32: Prepare for Kernel Userspace Access
> Protection") broke it even more by clobbering r0 which is not
> restored by fast_exception_return either.
> 
> Use r6 instead of r0. This is possible because r3-r6 are restored by
> fast_exception_return and only r3-r5 are used for exception arguments.
> 
> For r2 it could be converted back to virtual address, but stay on the
> safe side and restore it from the stack instead. It should be live
> in the cache at that moment, so loading from the stack should make
> no difference compared to converting it from phys to virt.
> 
> Fixes: f7354ccac844 ("powerpc/32: Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO and rename TI_CPU")
> Fixes: e2fb9f544431 ("powerpc/32: Prepare for Kernel Userspace Access Protection")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9933819099c4600b41a042f27a074470a43cf6b9

cheers