When the policy for user space is to ignore misaligned accesses from user
space, the processor then performs a documented rotation on the accessed
data. This is the result of the access being trapped, and the kernel
disabling the alignment trap before returning to user space again.
In kernel space we always want misaligned accesses to be fixed up. This
is enforced by always re-enabling the alignment trap on every entry into
kernel space from user space. No such re-enabling is performed when an
exception occurs while already in kernel space as the alignment trap is
always supposed to be enabled in that case.
There is however a small race window when a misaligned access in user
space is trapped and the alignment trap disabled, but the CPU didn't
return to user space just yet. Any exception would be entered from kernel
space at that point and the kernel would then execute with the alignment
trap disabled.
Thanks to Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> for providing a test module
that made this issue reproducible.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Statuses 3 (0b00011) and 6 (0x00110) of DFSR are Access Flags faults on
ARMv6K and ARMv7. Let's patch fsr_info[] at runtime if we are on ARMv7
or later.
Unfortunately, we don't have runtime check for 'K' extension, so we
can't check for it.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add one more parameter to hook_fault_code() to be able to set 'code'
field of struct fsr_info.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
POSIX specify to use signal SIGBUS with code BUS_ADRALN for invalid
address alignment.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Convert code away from ->read_proc/->write_proc interfaces. Switch to
proc_create()/proc_create_data() which makes addition of proc entries
reliable wrt NULL ->proc_fops, NULL ->data and so on.
Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
786d7e1612 "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
/proc entries"
This patch is part of an effort to remove the old simple procfs PAGE_SIZE
buffer interface.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'
This is caused because:
.section .data
.section .text
.section .text
.previous
does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.
Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot. This can prevent systems booting properly.
There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.
So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Always creating this directory avoids other users having to jump
through silly hoops when they want to share this directory.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
From: Min Zhang <mzhang@mvista.com>
Add alignment fault fixup support for 32-bit Thumb-2 LDM, LDRD, POP,
PUSH, STM and STRD instructions. Alignment fault fixup support for
the remaining 32-bit Thumb-2 load/store instruction cases is not
included since ARMv6 and later processors include hardware support
for loads and stores of unaligned words and halfwords.
Signed-off-by: Min Zhang <mzhang@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On ARMv6 and later CPUs, it is possible for userspace processes to
get stuck on a misaligned load or store due to the "ignore fault"
setting; unlike previous CPUs, retrying the instruction without
the 'A' bit set does not always cause the load to succeed.
We have no real option but to default to fixing up alignment faults
on these CPUs, and having the CPU fix up those misaligned accesses
which it can.
Reported-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.
It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to
compile, due to ifdefs.
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Lots of places in arch/arm were needlessly including linux/ptrace.h,
resumably because we used to pass a struct pt_regs to interrupt
handlers. Now that we don't, all these ptrace.h includes are
redundant.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Since do_bad_area() always takes the currently active task and
(supposed to) take the currently active MM, there's no point passing
them to this function. Instead, obtain references to them inside
do_bad_area().
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from George G. Davis
Fix leading, trailing and other miscellaneous whitespace issues
in arch/arm/kernel/alignment.c.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from George G. Davis
Add test for invalid LDRD/STRD Rd cases in ARM alignment handler
and restore SWP printk KERN_ERR.
Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Steve Longerbeam
Adds an implementation of unaligned LDRD and STRD fixups.
Also fixes a bug where do_alignment() would misinterpret and
fixup an unaligned LDRD/STRD as LDRH/STRH, causing memory
corruption.
This is the same as Patch #2867/1, but with minor whitespace
and comments changes, plus a check for arch-level >= v5TE
before printing ai_dword count in proc_alignment_read().
Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mwwireless.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
