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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 04:31:12 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	cmetcalf@...hip.com, riel@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	davej@...hat.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com, hpa@...or.com,
	oleg@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	fweisbec@...il.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, bp@...en8.de,
	umgwanakikbuti@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com
Subject: [tip:timers/nohz] context_tracking: Protect against recursion

Commit-ID:  aed5ed47724f6a7453fa62e3c90f3cee93edbfe3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/aed5ed47724f6a7453fa62e3c90f3cee93edbfe3
Author:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:04:23 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 7 May 2015 12:02:50 +0200

context_tracking: Protect against recursion

Context tracking recursion can happen when an exception triggers
in the middle of a call to a context tracking probe.

This special case can be caused by vmalloc faults. If an access
to a memory area allocated by vmalloc happens in the middle of
context_tracking_enter(), we may run into an endless fault loop
because the exception in turn calls context_tracking_enter()
which faults on the same vmalloc'ed memory, triggering an
exception again, etc...

Some rare crashes have been reported so lets protect against
this with a recursion counter.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/context_tracking_state.h |  1 +
 kernel/context_tracking.c              | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
index 6b7b96a..678ecdf 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ struct context_tracking {
 	 * may be further optimized using static keys.
 	 */
 	bool active;
+	int recursion;
 	enum ctx_state {
 		CONTEXT_KERNEL = 0,
 		CONTEXT_USER,
diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c
index 72d59a1..5b11a10 100644
--- a/kernel/context_tracking.c
+++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c
@@ -38,6 +38,25 @@ void context_tracking_cpu_set(int cpu)
 	}
 }
 
+static bool context_tracking_recursion_enter(void)
+{
+	int recursion;
+
+	recursion = __this_cpu_inc_return(context_tracking.recursion);
+	if (recursion == 1)
+		return true;
+
+	WARN_ONCE((recursion < 1), "Invalid context tracking recursion value %d\n", recursion);
+	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+static void context_tracking_recursion_exit(void)
+{
+	__this_cpu_dec(context_tracking.recursion);
+}
+
 /**
  * context_tracking_enter - Inform the context tracking that the CPU is going
  *                          enter user or guest space mode.
@@ -75,6 +94,9 @@ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm);
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
+	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
+		goto out_irq_restore;
+
 	if ( __this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) != state) {
 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
 			/*
@@ -105,6 +127,8 @@ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state)
 		 */
 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, state);
 	}
+	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
+out_irq_restore:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_enter);
@@ -139,6 +163,9 @@ void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
 		return;
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
+	if (!context_tracking_recursion_enter())
+		goto out_irq_restore;
+
 	if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == state) {
 		if (__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.active)) {
 			/*
@@ -153,6 +180,8 @@ void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state)
 		}
 		__this_cpu_write(context_tracking.state, CONTEXT_KERNEL);
 	}
+	context_tracking_recursion_exit();
+out_irq_restore:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_exit);
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