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| author | Mel Gorman <[email protected]> | 2022-11-10 12:44:00 +0000 | 
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> | 2022-11-10 16:57:38 +0100 | 
| commit | 36b038791e1e2baea892e9276588815fd14894b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 299e9629c30654ba08a9f41b0906cfa164871f08 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sched-migration.py | |
| parent | f0861f49bd946ff94fce4f82509c45e167f63690 (diff) | |
x86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions
Mike Galbraith reported the following against an old fork of preempt-rt
but the same issue also applies to the current preempt-rt tree.
   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
   in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: systemd
   preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
   RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
   Preemption disabled at:
   fpu_clone
   CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G            E       (unreleased)
   Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    dump_stack_lvl
    ? fpu_clone
    __might_resched
    rt_spin_lock
    fpu_clone
    ? copy_thread
    ? copy_process
    ? shmem_alloc_inode
    ? kmem_cache_alloc
    ? kernel_clone
    ? __do_sys_clone
    ? do_syscall_64
    ? __x64_sys_rt_sigprocmask
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode
    ? do_syscall_64
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode
    ? do_syscall_64
    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode
    ? do_syscall_64
    ? exc_page_fault
    ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
    </TASK>
Mike says:
  The splat comes from fpu_inherit_perms() being called under fpregs_lock(),
  and us reaching the spin_lock_irq() therein due to fpu_state_size_dynamic()
  returning true despite static key __fpu_state_size_dynamic having never
  been enabled.
Mike's assessment looks correct. fpregs_lock on a PREEMPT_RT kernel disables
preemption so calling spin_lock_irq() in fpu_inherit_perms() is unsafe. This
problem exists since commit
  9e798e9aa14c ("x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features").
Even though the original bug report should not have enabled the paths at
all, the bug still exists.
fpregs_lock is necessary when editing the FPU registers or a task's FP
state but it is not necessary for fpu_inherit_perms(). The only write
of any FP state in fpu_inherit_perms() is for the new child which is
not running yet and cannot context switch or be borrowed by a kernel
thread yet. Hence, fpregs_lock is not protecting anything in the new
child until clone() completes and can be dropped earlier. The siglock
still needs to be acquired by fpu_inherit_perms() as the read of the
parent's permissions has to be serialised.
  [ bp: Cleanup splat. ]
Fixes: 9e798e9aa14c ("x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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