powerpc/vdso: Don't use r30 to avoid breaking Go lang
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:56:36 +0000 (22:56 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:13:12 +0000 (23:13 +1000)
commita88603f4b92ecef9e2359e40bcb99ad399d85dd7
treec81294374114b8e8cf033db188be2f6ccf2ba38b
parent333cf507465fbebb3727f5b53e77538467df312a
powerpc/vdso: Don't use r30 to avoid breaking Go lang

The Go runtime uses r30 for some special value called 'g'. It assumes
that value will remain unchanged even when calling VDSO functions.
Although r30 is non-volatile across function calls, the callee is free
to use it, as long as the callee saves the value and restores it before
returning.

It used to be true by accident that the VDSO didn't use r30, because the
VDSO was hand-written asm. When we switched to building the VDSO from C
the compiler started using r30, at least in some builds, leading to
crashes in Go. eg:

  ~/go/src$ ./all.bash
  Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/lib/go-1.16. (go1.16.2 linux/ppc64le)
  Building Go toolchain1 using /usr/lib/go-1.16.
  go build os/exec: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
  go build reflect: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
  go tool dist: FAILED: /usr/lib/go-1.16/bin/go install -gcflags=-l -tags=math_big_pure_go compiler_bootstrap bootstrap/cmd/...: exit status 1

There are patches in flight to fix Go[1], but until they are released
and widely deployed we can workaround it in the VDSO by avoiding use of
r30.

Note this only works with GCC, clang does not support -ffixed-rN.

1: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/328110

Fixes: ab037dd87a2f ("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729131244.2595519-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile