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[PATCH 4.4 077/101] s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier

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  [PATCH 4.4 077/101] s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-03 15:40 +0200

#1680042 — [PATCH 4.4 077/101] s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit e991c24d68b8c0ba297eeb7af80b1e398e98c33f ]

We have quite a lot of code that depends on the order of the
__ctl_load inline assemby and subsequent memory accesses, like
e.g. disabling lowcore protection and the writing to lowcore.

Since the __ctl_load macro does not have memory barrier semantics, nor
any other dependencies the compiler is, theoretically, free to shuffle
code around. Or in other words: storing to lowcore could happen before
lowcore protection is disabled.

In order to avoid this class of potential bugs simply add a full
memory barrier to the __ctl_load macro.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/ctl_reg.h
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(addrtype) != (high - low + 1) * sizeof(long));\
 	asm volatile(							\
 		"	lctlg	%1,%2,%0\n"				\
-		: : "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high));\
+		:							\
+		: "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high)	\
+		: "memory");						\
 }
 
 #define __ctl_store(array, low, high) {					\

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