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Commit 959bf2fd03 ("arm64: percpu: Rewrite per-cpu ops to allow use of
LSE atomics") introduced alternative code sequences for the arm64 percpu
atomics, so that the LSE instructions can be patched in at runtime if
they are supported by the CPU.
Unfortunately, when patching in the LSE sequence for a value-returning
pcpu atomic, the argument registers are the wrong way round. The
implementation of this_cpu_add_return() therefore ends up adding
uninitialised stack to the percpu variable and returning garbage.
As it turns out, there aren't very many users of the value-returning
percpu atomics in mainline and we only spotted this due to a failure in
the kprobes selftests. In this case, when attempting to single-step over
the out-of-line instruction slot, the debug monitors would not be
enabled because calling this_cpu_inc_return() on the kernel debug
monitor refcount would fail to detect the transition from 0. We would
consequently execute past the slot and take an undefined instruction
exception from the kernel, resulting in a BUG:
| kernel BUG at arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:421!
| PREEMPT SMP
| pc : do_undefinstr+0x268/0x278
| lr : do_undefinstr+0x124/0x278
| Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(____ptrval____))
| Call trace:
| do_undefinstr+0x268/0x278
| el1_undef+0x10/0x78
| 0xffff00000803c004
| init_kprobes+0x150/0x180
| do_one_initcall+0x74/0x178
| kernel_init_freeable+0x188/0x224
| kernel_init+0x10/0x100
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
Fix the argument order to get the value-returning pcpu atomics working
correctly when implemented using the LSE instructions.
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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