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If a system call is made with a transaction active, the kernel
immediately aborts it and returns. scv system calls disable irqs even
earlier in their interrupt handler, and tabort_syscall does not fix this
up.
This can result in irq soft-mask state being messed up on the next
kernel entry, and crashing at BUG_ON(arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs)) in
the kernel exit handlers, or possibly worse.
This can't easily be fixed in asm because at this point an async irq may
have hit, which is soft-masked and marked pending. The pending interrupt
has to be replayed before returning to userspace. The fix is to move the
tabort_syscall code to C in the main syscall handler, and just skip the
system call but otherwise return as usual, which will take care of the
pending irqs. This also does a bunch of other things including possible
signal delivery to the process, but the doomed transaction should still
be aborted when it is eventually returned to.
The sc system call path is changed to use the new C function as well to
reduce code and path differences. This slows down how quickly system
calls are aborted when called while a transaction is active, which could
potentially impact TM performance. But making any system call is already
bad for performance, and TM is on the way out, so go with simpler over
faster.
Fixes:
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| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.