From: Felipe Rechia felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br
[ Upstream commit e901378578c62202594cba0f6c076f3df365ec91 ]
Fix a bug introduced by the creation of flush_all_to_thread() for processors that have SPE (Signal Processing Engine) and use it to compute floating-point operations.
From userspace perspective, the problem was seen in attempts of
computing floating-point operations which should generate exceptions. For example:
fork(); float x = 0.0 / 0.0; isnan(x); // forked process returns False (should be True)
The operation above also should always cause the SPEFSCR FINV bit to be set. However, the SPE floating-point exceptions were turned off after a fork().
Kernel versions prior to the bug used flush_spe_to_thread(), which first saves SPEFSCR register values in tsk->thread and then calls giveup_spe(tsk).
After commit 579e633e764e, the save_all() function was called first to giveup_spe(), and then the SPEFSCR register values were saved in tsk->thread. This would save the SPEFSCR register values after disabling SPE for that thread, causing the bug described above.
Fixes 579e633e764e ("powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()") Signed-off-by: Felipe Rechia felipe.rechia@datacom.com.br Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index 5e5da2073fdff..ba0d4f9a99bac 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -567,12 +567,11 @@ void flush_all_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) if (tsk->thread.regs) { preempt_disable(); BUG_ON(tsk != current); - save_all(tsk); - #ifdef CONFIG_SPE if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_SPE) tsk->thread.spefscr = mfspr(SPRN_SPEFSCR); #endif + save_all(tsk);
preempt_enable(); }