linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] ftrace/x86: fix x86-32 triple fault with graph tracing and suspend-to-ram

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Message-ID: <20170327152041.bxpgznmfnyah62zu@treble>
Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:20:41 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2] ftrace/x86: fix x86-32 triple fault with graph tracing
 and suspend-to-ram

On x86-32, with CONFIG_FIRMWARE and multiple CPUs, if you enable
function graph tracing and then suspend to RAM, it will triple fault and
reboot when it resumes.

The first fault happens when booting a secondary CPU:

startup_32_smp()
  load_ucode_ap()
    prepare_ftrace_return()
      ftrace_graph_is_dead()
        (accesses 'kill_ftrace_graph')

The early head_32.S code calls into load_ucode_ap(), which has an an
ftrace hook, so it calls prepare_ftrace_return(), which calls
ftrace_graph_is_dead(), which tries to access the global
'kill_ftrace_graph' variable with a virtual address, causing a fault
because the CPU is still in real mode.

The fix is to add a check in prepare_ftrace_return() to make sure it's
running in protected mode before continuing.  The check makes sure the
stack pointer is a virtual kernel address.  It's a bit of a hack, but
it's not very intrusive and it works well enough.

For reference, here are a few other (more difficult) ways this could
have potentially been fixed:

- Move startup_32_smp()'s call to load_ucode_ap() down to *after* paging
  is enabled.  (No idea what that would break.)

- Track down load_ucode_ap()'s entire callee tree and mark all the
  functions 'notrace'.  (Probably not realistic.)

- Pause graph tracing in ftrace_suspend_notifier_call() or bringup_cpu()
  or __cpu_up(), and ensure that the pause facility can be queried from
  real mode.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
---
v2:
- put return statement on its own line

 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 8f3d9cf..5b71535 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -983,6 +983,18 @@ void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long self_addr, unsigned long *parent,
 	unsigned long return_hooker = (unsigned long)
 				&return_to_handler;
 
+	/*
+	 * When resuming from suspend-to-ram, this function can be indirectly
+	 * called from early CPU startup code while the CPU is in real mode,
+	 * which would fail miserably.  Make sure the stack pointer is a
+	 * virtual address.
+	 *
+	 * This check isn't as accurate as virt_addr_valid(), but it should be
+	 * good enough for this purpose, and it's fast.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely((long)__builtin_frame_address(0) >= 0))
+		return;
+
 	if (unlikely(ftrace_graph_is_dead()))
 		return;
 
-- 
2.7.4