linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 03/68] x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable

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Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 19:04:30 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Markus Boehme <markubo@...zon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 03/68] x86/xen: Make the secondary CPU idle tasks reliable

From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>

commit c3881eb58d56116c79ac4ee4f40fd15ead124c4b upstream.

The unwinder reports the secondary CPU idle tasks' stack on XEN PV as
unreliable, which affects at least live patching.
cpu_initialize_context() sets up the context of the CPU through
VCPUOP_initialise hypercall. After it is woken up, the idle task starts
in cpu_bringup_and_idle() function and its stack starts at the offset
right below pt_regs. The unwinder correctly detects the end of stack
there but it is confused by NULL return address in the last frame.

Introduce a wrapper in assembly, which just calls
cpu_bringup_and_idle(). The return address is thus pushed on the stack
and the wrapper contains the annotation hint for the unwinder regarding
the stack state.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Boehme <markubo@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c   |    3 ++-
 arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_common_
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_common_irq, xen_pmu_irq) = { .irq = -1 };
 
 static irqreturn_t xen_irq_work_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id);
+void asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle(void);
 
 static void cpu_bringup(void)
 {
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu,
 	 * pointing just below where pt_regs would be if it were a normal
 	 * kernel entry.
 	 */
-	ctxt->user_regs.eip = (unsigned long)cpu_bringup_and_idle;
+	ctxt->user_regs.eip = (unsigned long)asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle;
 	ctxt->flags = VGCF_IN_KERNEL;
 	ctxt->user_regs.eflags = 0x1000; /* IOPL_RING1 */
 	ctxt->user_regs.ds = __USER_DS;
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ ENTRY(startup_xen)
 	call xen_start_kernel
 END(startup_xen)
 	__FINIT
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_PV_SMP
+.pushsection .text
+SYM_CODE_START(asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle)
+	UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY
+
+	call cpu_bringup_and_idle
+SYM_CODE_END(asm_cpu_bringup_and_idle)
+.popsection
+#endif
 #endif
 
 .pushsection .text