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* [PATCH] powerpc: fix NMI exit ordering: restore soft masks after irqentry_nmi_exit()
@ 2026-09-29  7:16 Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)
  2026-09-29  8:50 ` Venkat Rao Bagalkote
  2026-09-29  9:44 ` Shrikanth Hegde
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) @ 2026-09-29  7:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maddy, mpe, npiggin, chleroy, ritesh.list, sshegde, mkchauras,
	mkchauras, ruanjinjie, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
  Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote

When running with CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG=y and LOCKDEP=y, an
Oops is triggered during NMI exit:

  [  202.258332] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
  NIP [000000000003e178] 0x3e178
  LR  [c00000000003e174] arch_local_irq_restore+0x2a4/0x328
  TRAP: 0700  MSR: 0000000000081000 <ME>

The faulting instruction at NIP is a 'trap' (0fe00000) inside the
rfi_flush_fallback trampoline at a userspace-looking low address, reached
after a bad rfid caused by an incorrect SRR0 value.

Root cause
----------
DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER_NMI used to call arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare()
*before* irqentry_nmi_exit(), giving this sequence:

  arch_interrupt_nmi_enter_prepare()   // saves irq_soft_mask, irq_happened
  irqentry_nmi_enter()                 // __nmi_enter() -> nmi_count++, in_nmi()=true
  ____func(regs)                       // NMI handler body
  arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare()    // RESTORES irq_soft_mask=0 (IRQS_ENABLED)
                                       // RESTORES irq_happened with pending bits
  irqentry_nmi_exit()                  // instrumentation block runs here...
    trace_hardirqs_on_prepare()        //   ...with in_nmi()==true still
    lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare()      //   ...and irq_soft_mask already restored to 0
      -> arch_local_irq_restore(0)     // mask=0 -> enable path entered
           WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi())      // FIRES: __nmi_exit() hasn't run yet
    __nmi_exit()                       // nmi_count-- (too late)

arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare() restores irq_soft_mask to whatever
the interrupted thread had (IRQS_ENABLED / 0) and restores irq_happened
with any pending deferred-interrupt bits that were present when the NMI
fired.  This is correct and necessary before rfid back to the interrupted
context, but it must not happen until irqentry_nmi_exit() has fully
completed.

With irq_soft_mask=0 and pending bits in irq_happened, the
trace_hardirqs_on_prepare() call inside irqentry_nmi_exit()'s
instrumentation block reaches lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare() which
calls __trace_hardirqs_on_caller(), which eventually calls
arch_local_irq_restore(0) (the IRQS_ENABLED / enable path).

arch_local_irq_restore() with mask=0 hits the CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG
guards at irq_64.c:217:

  WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());   // TRUE: __nmi_exit() not yet called

The WARN_ON_ONCE fires a 'trap' instruction (tw 31,0,0 / 0fe00000) in
kernel mode with MSR_PR=0, MSR_IR=0 (real-mode).  The program check
handler (TRAP 0700) takes the sig:4 (SIGILL) path via do_program_check()
and calls die(), producing the Oops.

The RESTART_TABLE mechanism in arch_local_irq_restore then causes the
bad rfid that lands at the userspace-looking address visible in the NIP.

The bug is invisible with LOCKDEP=n because trace_hardirqs_on_prepare()
is a no-op when CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS is not set (TRACE_IRQFLAGS is
selected by PROVE_LOCKING which selects LOCKDEP).

Fix
---
Move arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare() to after the irqentry_nmi_exit()
block, so that:

  irqentry_nmi_exit()                 // __nmi_exit() -> nmi_count--, in_nmi()=false
  arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare()   // now safe to restore soft mask state

The instrumentation inside irqentry_nmi_exit() now executes while
in_nmi() is still true (nmi_count not yet decremented), but
irq_soft_mask is still IRQS_ALL_DISABLED (NMI-entry value), so
arch_local_irq_restore() is never called with mask=0 from that path.
After __nmi_exit() returns, arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare() restores
the pre-NMI soft mask and irq_happened, which is the correct state for
the rfid back to the interrupted context.

Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d4cccba9-ce5c-424b-864c-2248fb0d99e6@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: bee25f97ad24 ("powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature")
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
index 1b45a49e9bed..56f855c6f07e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ interrupt_handler long func(struct pt_regs *regs)			\
 		state = irqentry_nmi_enter(regs);			\
 	}								\
 	ret = ____##func (regs);					\
-	arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare(regs, &nmi_state);		\
 	if (mfmsr() & MSR_DR) {						\
 		/* nmi_exit if relocations are on */			\
 		irqentry_nmi_exit(regs, state);				\
@@ -317,6 +316,7 @@ interrupt_handler long func(struct pt_regs *regs)			\
 	} else {							\
 		irqentry_nmi_exit(regs, state);				\
 	}								\
+	arch_interrupt_nmi_exit_prepare(regs, &nmi_state);		\
 									\
 	return ret;							\
 }									\
-- 
2.55.0


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