[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Send SIGBUS on unaligned copy and paste

Calling ISA 3.0 instructions copy, copy_first, paste and paste_last
generates an alignment fault when copying or pasting unaligned
data (128 byte). We catch this and send SIGBUS to the userspace
process that caused it.

We do not emulate these because paste may contain additional metadata
when pasting to a co-processor and paste_last is the synchronisation
point for preceding copy/paste sequences.

Thanks to Michael Neuling [off-list ref] for his help.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smart <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
index 8e7cb8e2b21a..fcdf09476eec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c

@@ -875,6 +875,21 @@ int fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		return emulate_vsx(addr, reg, areg, regs, flags, nb, elsize);
 	}
 #endif
+
+	/*
+	 * ISA 3.0 (such as P9) copy, copy_first, paste and paste_last alignment
+	 * check.
+	 *
+	 * Send a SIGBUS to the process that caused the fault.
+	 *
+	 * We do not emulate these because paste may contain additional metadata
+	 * when pasting to a co-processor. Furthermore, paste_last is the
+	 * synchronisation point for preceding copy/paste sequences.
+	 */
+	if ((instruction & 0xfc0006fe) == 0x7c00060c){
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
 	/* A size of 0 indicates an instruction we don't support, with
 	 * the exception of DCBZ which is handled as a special case here
 	 */

-- 
2.7.4

Le 09/06/2016 à 08:01, Chris Smart a écrit :

Can you define corresponding instruction and mask in 
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
and use symbolic names here instead of raw values ?

Christophe

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

Le 09/06/2016 à 08:01, Chris Smart a écrit :

quoted

Calling ISA 3.0 instructions copy, copy_first, paste and paste_last
generates an alignment fault when copying or pasting unaligned
data (128 byte). We catch this and send SIGBUS to the userspace
process that caused it.

[snip]

quoted

+    if ((instruction & 0xfc0006fe) == 0x7c00060c){

Can you define corresponding instruction and mask in 
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
and use symbolic names here instead of raw values ?

Yep, thanks. Will look at doing this for V2.

Cheers,
-c