linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: fix panic by disable ftrace on fault.c

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Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:30:52 +0800
From:   王贇 <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
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        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
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        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH] perf: fix panic by disable ftrace on fault.c

When running with ftrace function enabled, we observed panic
as below:

  traps: PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
  [snip]
  RIP: 0010:perf_swevent_get_recursion_context+0x0/0x70
  [snip]
  Call Trace:
   <NMI>
   perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x26/0xd0
   perf_ftrace_function_call+0x18f/0x2e0
   kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x5/0x120
   __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1b8/0x280
   do_user_addr_fault+0x410/0x920
   exc_page_fault+0x92/0x300
   asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
  RIP: 0010:__get_user_nocheck_8+0x6/0x13
   perf_callchain_user+0x266/0x2f0
   get_perf_callchain+0x194/0x210
   perf_callchain+0xa3/0xc0
   perf_prepare_sample+0xa5/0xa60
   perf_event_output_forward+0x7b/0x1b0
   __perf_event_overflow+0x67/0x120
   perf_swevent_overflow+0xcb/0x110
   perf_swevent_event+0xb0/0xf0
   perf_tp_event+0x292/0x410
   perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x87/0xc0
   perf_trace_lock_acquire+0x12b/0x170
   lock_acquire+0x1bf/0x2e0
   perf_output_begin+0x70/0x4b0
   perf_log_throttle+0xe2/0x1a0
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x30/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xba/0x2a0
   default_do_nmi+0x45/0xf0
   exc_nmi+0x155/0x170
   end_repeat_nmi+0x16/0x55

According to the trace we know the story is like this, the NMI
triggered perf IRQ throttling and call perf_log_throttle(),
which triggered the swevent overflow, and the overflow process
do perf_callchain_user() which triggered a user PF, and the PF
process triggered perf ftrace which finally lead into a suspected
stack overflow.

This patch disable ftrace on fault.c, which help to avoid the panic.

Reported-by: Abaci <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
index 5864219..1dbdca5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # Kernel does not boot with instrumentation of tlb.c and mem_encrypt*.c
+
+# Disable ftrace to avoid stack overflow.
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_fault.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_tlb.o			:= n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mem_encrypt.o		:= n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mem_encrypt_identity.o	:= n
-- 
1.8.3.1