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Alistair Popple 05e38e5d5d powerpc: Fix audit crash due to save/restore PPR changes 
The current mainline crashes when hitting userspace with the following:

kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000023883a60]
    pc: c0000000001047a8: .__audit_syscall_entry+0x38/0x130
    lr: c00000000000ed64: .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
    sp: c000000023883ce0
   msr: 8000000000029032
  current = 0xc000000023800000
  paca    = 0xc00000000f080380   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 1629, comm = start_udev
kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1769!
enter ? for help
[c000000023883d80] c00000000000ed64 .do_syscall_trace_enter+0xc4/0x270
[c000000023883e30] c000000000009b08 syscall_dotrace+0xc/0x38
 --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 0000008010ec50dc

Bisecting found the following patch caused it:

commit 44e9309f1f
Author: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
powerpc: Implement PPR save/restore

It was found this patch corrupted r9 when calling
SET_DEFAULT_THREAD_PPR()

Using r10 as a scratch register instead of r9 solved the problem.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2013-04-15 17:29:45 +10:00
..
boot Merge remote-tracking branch 'agust/next' into next 2013-02-20 11:39:05 +11:00
configs Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-02-23 17:09:55 -08:00
crypto powerpc: Fix compile of sha1-powerpc-asm.S on 32-bit 2013-03-05 16:56:26 +11:00
include powerpc: Rename USER_ESID_BITS* to ESID_BITS* 2013-03-17 12:45:44 +11:00
kernel powerpc: Fix audit crash due to save/restore PPR changes 2013-04-15 17:29:45 +10:00
kvm powerpc: Rename USER_ESID_BITS* to ESID_BITS* 2013-03-17 12:45:44 +11:00
lib uprobes/powerpc: Add dependency on single step emulation 2013-01-29 11:35:06 +11:00
math-emu
mm powerpc: Rename USER_ESID_BITS* to ESID_BITS* 2013-03-17 12:45:44 +11:00
net PPC: net: bpf_jit_comp: add VLAN instructions for BPF JIT 2012-11-17 22:12:47 -05:00
oprofile Merge branch 'merge' into next 2013-01-29 11:33:37 +11:00
perf perf/urgent fixes: 2013-03-18 10:00:56 +01:00
platforms powerpc: pSeries_lpar_hpte_remove fails from Adjunct partition being performed before the ANDCOND test 2013-04-08 15:19:09 +10:00
sysdev Merge remote-tracking branch 'agust/next' into next 2013-02-20 11:39:05 +11:00
xmon powerpc: Rename set_break to avoid naming conflict 2013-01-16 05:25:47 +11:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-03-18 08:12:41 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile powerpc: Avoid load of static chain register when calling nested functions through a pointer on 64bit 2013-01-10 17:01:27 +11:00
relocs_check.pl