From: Thibault Ferrante <thibault.ferrante@canonical.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, maddy@linux.ibm.com
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, shuah@kernel.org,
chleroy@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc/tm: Fix tcheck() reading uninitialised CR value
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 23:54:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907215420.1258678-1-thibault.ferrante@canonical.com> (raw)
tcheck() is used to check the current transaction state (active,
suspended, doomed) via the "tcheck" instruction, which writes its
result into CR field 0. The inline asm declared a GPR output operand
for this result but never actually moved the CR into it.
Every caller (tcheck_doomed(), tcheck_active(), tcheck_suspended(),
tcheck_transactional()) has effectively been testing bits of an unrelated,
arbitrary register value since this helper was introduced.
The "& 4" mask discards the TDOOMED and TS_lsb (suspended) bits before
they ever reach the callers, so tcheck_doomed() and tcheck_suspended()
can never return true, and tcheck_transactional() degrades to being
equivalent to tcheck_active().
Fix tcheck() to actually move CR into the output register with mfcr,
and widen the mask from "& 4" to "& 0xf" so the full CR0 nibble
(TDOOMED | TS_msb | TS_lsb | reserved) is preserved for the callers.
This bug has been present since tcheck() was introduced.
Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2107442
Fixes: 8e03bd4e70b6 ("selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C")
Signed-off-by: Thibault Ferrante <thibault.ferrante@canonical.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
index c03c6e778876..6024ce4ba6ff 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
@@ -105,8 +105,12 @@ static inline bool failure_is_nesting(void)
static inline int tcheck(void)
{
long cr;
- asm volatile ("tcheck 0" : "=r"(cr) : : "cr0");
- return (cr >> 28) & 4;
+ asm volatile("tcheck 0;"
+ "mfcr %0;"
+ : "=r"(cr)
+ :
+ : "cr0");
+ return (cr >> 28) & 0xf;
}
static inline bool tcheck_doomed(void)
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 21:54 Thibault Ferrante [this message]
2026-09-09 5:28 ` Venkat
2026-09-09 8:56 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-09-09 10:05 ` Thibault Ferrante
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