linux-sg2042/arch
Paul Mackerras 09b7e37b18 powerpc/64: Fix race condition in setting lock bit in idle/wakeup code
This fixes a race condition where one thread that is entering or
leaving a power-saving state can inadvertently ignore the lock bit
that was set by another thread, and potentially also clear it.
The core_idle_lock_held function is called when the lock bit is
seen to be set.  It polls the lock bit until it is clear, then
does a lwarx to load the word containing the lock bit and thread
idle bits so it can be updated.  However, it is possible that the
value loaded with the lwarx has the lock bit set, even though an
immediately preceding lwz loaded a value with the lock bit clear.
If this happens then we go ahead and update the word despite the
lock bit being set, and when called from pnv_enter_arch207_idle_mode,
we will subsequently clear the lock bit.

No identifiable misbehaviour has been attributed to this race.

This fixes it by checking the lock bit in the value loaded by the
lwarx.  If it is set then we just go back and keep on polling.

Fixes: b32aadc1a8 ("powerpc/powernv: Fix race in updating core_idle_state")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-10-24 19:29:47 +11:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-14 18:19:05 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus 2016-10-14 20:42:44 -04:00
arm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-14 18:19:05 -07:00
arm64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-14 18:19:05 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-10-07 21:38:00 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus 2016-10-14 20:42:44 -04:00
c6x nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
cris CRIS changes for 4.9 2016-10-10 11:28:35 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
h8300 nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
hexagon nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
m32r nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
metag Metag architecture fixes for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-14 11:11:39 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-10-15 09:26:12 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-10 11:31:19 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'parisc-4.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2016-10-11 23:59:07 -07:00
powerpc powerpc/64: Fix race condition in setting lock bit in idle/wakeup code 2016-10-24 19:29:47 +11:00
s390 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
score Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-14 18:19:05 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
tile tile: use simpler API for random address requests 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
um nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: use simpler API for random address requests 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
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