Subject: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/64/interrupt: Reconcile soft-mask state in NMI and fix false BUG

From: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 00:56:41 +1000

If a NMI hits early in an interrupt handler before the irq soft-mask
state is reconciled, that can cause a false-positive BUG with a
CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG assertion.

Remove that assertion and instead check the case that if regs->msr has
EE clear, then regs->softe should be marked as disabled so the irq state
looks correct to NMI handlers, the same as how it's fixed up in the
case it was implicit soft-masked.

This doesn't fix a known problem -- the change that was fixed by commit
4ec5feec1ad02 ("powerpc/64s: Make NMI record implicitly soft-masked code
as irqs disabled") was the addition of a warning in the soft-nmi
watchdog interrupt which can never actually fire when MSR[EE]=0. However
it may be important if NMI handlers grow more code, and it's less
surprising to anything using 'regs' - (I tripped over this when working
in the area).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
index 6b800d3e2681..b894b7169706 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h
@@ -265,13 +265,16 @@ static inline void interrupt_nmi_enter_prepare(struct pt_regs *regs, struct inte
 	local_paca->irq_soft_mask = IRQS_ALL_DISABLED;
 	local_paca->irq_happened |= PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;
 
-	if (is_implicit_soft_masked(regs)) {
-		// Adjust regs->softe soft implicit soft-mask, so
-		// arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs) behaves as expected.
+	if (!(regs->msr & MSR_EE) || is_implicit_soft_masked(regs)) {
+		/*
+		 * Adjust regs->softe to be soft-masked if it had not been
+		 * reconcied (e.g., interrupt entry with MSR[EE]=0 but softe
+		 * not yet set disabled), or if it was in an implicit soft
+		 * masked state. This makes arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs)
+		 * behave as expected.
+		 */
 		regs->softe = IRQS_ALL_DISABLED;
 	}
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG))
-		BUG_ON(!arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs) && !(regs->msr & MSR_EE));
 
 	/* Don't do any per-CPU operations until interrupt state is fixed */
 
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