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Message-Id: <20200225220217.150607679@linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:36:46 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [patch 10/10] x86/traps: Stop using ist_enter/exit() in do_int3()

#BP is not longer using IST and using ist_enter() and ist_exit() makes it
harder to change ist_enter() and ist_exit()'s behavior.  Instead open-code
the very small amount of required logic.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -572,14 +572,20 @@ dotraplinkage void notrace do_int3(struc
 		return;
 
 	/*
-	 * Use ist_enter despite the fact that we don't use an IST stack.
-	 * We can be called from a kprobe in non-CONTEXT_KERNEL kernel
-	 * mode or even during context tracking state changes.
+	 * Unlike any other non-IST entry, we can be called from a kprobe in
+	 * non-CONTEXT_KERNEL kernel mode or even during context tracking
+	 * state changes.  Make sure that we wake up RCU even if we're coming
+	 * from kernel code.
 	 *
-	 * This means that we can't schedule.  That's okay.
+	 * This means that we can't schedule even if we came from a
+	 * preemptible kernel context.  That's okay.
 	 */
-	ist_enter(regs);
+	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
+		rcu_nmi_enter();
+		preempt_disable();
+	}
 	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU");
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP
 	if (kgdb_ll_trap(DIE_INT3, "int3", regs, error_code, X86_TRAP_BP,
 				SIGTRAP) == NOTIFY_STOP)
@@ -600,7 +606,10 @@ dotraplinkage void notrace do_int3(struc
 	cond_local_irq_disable(regs);
 
 exit:
-	ist_exit(regs);
+	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
+		preempt_enable_no_resched();
+		rcu_nmi_exit();
+	}
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_int3);