[PATCH RFC v3 30/30] RFC: ARM: entry: Block IRQs in early IRQ context
From: Linus Walleij <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-07 09:42:08
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Russell King, Linus Torvalds
When dabt, pabt or und exceptions occur on ARM, ordinary interrupts (IRQs) can still happen. This isn't nice for the kernels context tracker, which expect (when using generic entry at least) that any nested IRQs happens between irqentry_enter() and irqentry_exit(), else it thinks something is fishy. This workaround blocks interrupts in the pabt, dabt and und exception paths until after context has been established with irqentry_enter() and before it is exited with irqentry_exit(). This seems like far from perfect: it seems an interrupt could still occur right before the first disable_irq_notrace or right after the userspace registers are restored in ret_from_exception. I would like to know if there is some way to set up these exceptions to inherently block IRQs when handled, until we explicitly allow them between irqentry_enter() and irqentry_exit() or if this is simply the best we can do on ARM for these exceptions to make the context tracker happy. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <redacted> --- arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 7 ++----- arch/arm/kernel/entry.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index ae2f952beea7611f0abc7bd299fc944335a21219..10f59b2864a43dc4e1b141513f39eb9404ae9fd0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ ENDPROC(__fiq_abt) .align 5 __dabt_usr: + disable_irq_notrace usr_entry uaccess=0 kuser_cmpxchg_check mov r2, sp
@@ -416,11 +417,6 @@ ENDPROC(__irq_usr) __und_usr: usr_entry uaccess=0 - @ IRQs must be enabled before attempting to read the instruction from - @ user space since that could cause a page/translation fault if the - @ page table was modified by another CPU. - enable_irq - tst r5, #PSR_T_BIT @ Thumb mode? mov r1, #2 @ set insn size to 2 for Thumb bne 0f @ handle as Thumb undef exception
@@ -438,6 +434,7 @@ ENDPROC(__und_usr) .align 5 __pabt_usr: + disable_irq_notrace usr_entry mov r2, sp @ regs pabt_helper
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry.c b/arch/arm/kernel/entry.c
index 10714dda5753684c7a2b8960562748525de774a8..852e03fac6ce8956415e464a69d41328593d2cc6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry.c@@ -16,8 +16,18 @@ noinstr asmlinkage void arm_und_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) { irqentry_state_t state = irqentry_enter(regs); + /* + * IRQs must be enabled before attempting to read the instruction from + * user space since that could cause a page/translation fault if the + * page table was modified by another CPU. + */ + + local_irq_enable(); + do_undefinstr(regs); + local_irq_disable(); + irqentry_exit(regs, state); }
@@ -25,8 +35,12 @@ noinstr asmlinkage void arm_dabt_handler(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, s { irqentry_state_t state = irqentry_enter(regs); + local_irq_enable(); + do_DataAbort(addr, fsr, regs); + local_irq_disable(); + irqentry_exit(regs, state); }
@@ -34,8 +48,12 @@ noinstr asmlinkage void arm_pabt_handler(unsigned long addr, unsigned int ifsr, { irqentry_state_t state = irqentry_enter(regs); + local_irq_enable(); + do_PrefetchAbort(addr, ifsr, regs); + local_irq_disable(); + irqentry_exit(regs, state); }
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