openwrtv4/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/062-03-MIPS-Only-change-28-to-thread_info-if-coming-from-us.patch
Felix Fietkau 1708644f19 kernel: backport MIPS changes introducing a separate IRQ stack
Prevents crashes when IRQs arrive when the current kernel stack context
already contains deeply nested function calls, e.g. when stacking lots
of network devices on top of each other

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
2017-01-15 18:25:54 +01:00

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From: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:20:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Only change $28 to thread_info if coming from user
mode
The SAVE_SOME macro is used to save the execution context on all
exceptions.
If an exception occurs while executing user code, the stack is switched
to the kernel's stack for the current task, and register $28 is switched
to point to the current_thread_info, which is at the bottom of the stack
region.
If the exception occurs while executing kernel code, the stack is left,
and this change ensures that register $28 is not updated. This is the
correct behaviour when the kernel can be executing on the separate irq
stack, because the thread_info will not be at the base of it.
With this change, register $28 is only switched to it's kernel
conventional usage of the currrent thread info pointer at the point at
which execution enters kernel space. Doing it on every exception was
redundant, but OK without an IRQ stack, but will be erroneous once that
is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
---
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
@@ -216,12 +216,19 @@
LONG_S $25, PT_R25(sp)
LONG_S $28, PT_R28(sp)
LONG_S $31, PT_R31(sp)
+
+ /* Set thread_info if we're coming from user mode */
+ mfc0 k0, CP0_STATUS
+ sll k0, 3 /* extract cu0 bit */
+ bltz k0, 9f
+
ori $28, sp, _THREAD_MASK
xori $28, _THREAD_MASK
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
.set mips64
pref 0, 0($28) /* Prefetch the current pointer */
#endif
+9:
.set pop
.endm