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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2007-11-20 10:44:18 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2007-11-26 17:26:14 +0000
commit0f67e90e1caea4a0a14d2c60102547bce29f7f08 (patch)
tree06e46b8b4f8f8fe6c08371987252294769d1acc1 /include/asm-mips
parent07500b0d855b7f3f47ca263b21b6397d743d45d2 (diff)
[MIPS] Fix possible hang in LL/SC futex loops.
The LL / SC loops in __futex_atomic_op() have the usual fixups necessary for memory acccesses to userspace from kernel space installed: __asm__ __volatile__( " .set push \n" " .set noat \n" " .set mips3 \n" "1: ll %1, %4 # __futex_atomic_op \n" " .set mips0 \n" " " insn " \n" " .set mips3 \n" "2: sc $1, %2 \n" " beqz $1, 1b \n" __WEAK_LLSC_MB "3: \n" " .set pop \n" " .set mips0 \n" " .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" "4: li %0, %6 \n" " j 2b \n" <----- " .previous \n" " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" " "__UA_ADDR "\t1b, 4b \n" " "__UA_ADDR "\t2b, 4b \n" " .previous \n" : "=r" (ret), "=&r" (oldval), "=R" (*uaddr) : "0" (0), "R" (*uaddr), "Jr" (oparg), "i" (-EFAULT) : "memory"); The branch at the end of the fixup code, it goes back to the SC instruction, no matter if the fault was first taken by the LL or SC instruction resulting in an endless loop which will only terminate if the address become valid again due to another thread setting up an accessible mapping and the CPU happens to execute the SC instruction successfully which due to the preceeding ERET instruction of the fault handler would only happen if UNPREDICTABLE instruction behaviour of the SC instruction without a preceeding LL happens to favor that outcome. But normally processes are nice, pass valid arguments and we were just getting away with this. Thanks to Kaz Kylheku <kaz@zeugmasystems.com> for providing the original report and a test case. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-mips')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-mips/futex.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/futex.h b/include/asm-mips/futex.h
index 3e7e30d4f41..17f082cfea8 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/futex.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/futex.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
" .set mips0 \n" \
" .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \
"4: li %0, %6 \n" \
- " j 2b \n" \
+ " j 3b \n" \
" .previous \n" \
" .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \
" "__UA_ADDR "\t1b, 4b \n" \
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
" .set mips0 \n" \
" .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \
"4: li %0, %6 \n" \
- " j 2b \n" \
+ " j 3b \n" \
" .previous \n" \
" .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \
" "__UA_ADDR "\t1b, 4b \n" \
@@ -200,4 +200,4 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(int __user *uaddr, int oldval, int newval)
}
#endif
-#endif
+#endif /* _ASM_FUTEX_H */