linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: Add helpers to wrap vcpu->srcu

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Message-ID: <ad0023fd2ea0297e7bfb8a6a9535b2b8b8f56093.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:36:57 +0300
From:   Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: Add helpers to wrap vcpu->srcu_idx and yell if
 it's abused

On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 15:45 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 00:43 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Add wrappers to acquire/release KVM's SRCU lock when stashing the index
> > > in vcpu->src_idx, along with rudimentary detection of illegal usage,
> > > e.g. re-acquiring SRCU and thus overwriting vcpu->src_idx.  Because the
> > > SRCU index is (currently) either 0 or 1, illegal nesting bugs can go
> > > unnoticed for quite some time and only cause problems when the nested
> > > lock happens to get a different index.
> > > 
> > > Wrap the WARNs in PROVE_RCU=y, and make them ONCE, otherwise KVM will
> > > likely yell so loudly that it will bring the kernel to its knees.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> > > ---
> 
> ...
> 
> > Looks good to me overall.
> > 
> > Note that there are still places that acquire the lock and store the idx into
> > a local variable, for example kvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr and such.
> > I didn't check yet if these should be converted as well.
> 
> Using a local variable is ok, even desirable.  Nested/multiple readers is not an
> issue, the bug fixed by patch 1 is purely that kvm_vcpu.srcu_idx gets corrupted.

Makes sense. I still recal *that* bug in AVIC inhibition where that srcu lock was
a major PITA, but now I remember that it was not due to nesting of the lock,
but rather fact that we attempted to call syncronize_srcu or something like that
with it held.


> 
> In an ideal world, KVM would _only_ track the SRCU index in local variables, but
> that would require plumbing the local variable down into vcpu_enter_guest() and
> kvm_vcpu_block() so that SRCU can be unlocked prior to entering the guest or
> scheduling out the vCPU.
> 
It all makes sense now - thanks.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levistky