Patch "x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-nmi-enable-nested-do_nmi-handling-for-64-bit-kernels.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 9d05041679904b12c12421cbcf9cb5f4860a8d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:29:33 -0700
Subject: x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 9d05041679904b12c12421cbcf9cb5f4860a8d7b upstream.

32-bit kernels handle nested NMIs in C.  Enable the exact same
handling on 64-bit kernels as well.  This isn't currently
necessary, but it will become necessary once the asm code starts
allowing limited nesting.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c |  125 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -392,15 +392,15 @@ static __kprobes void default_do_nmi(str
 }
 
 /*
- * NMIs can hit breakpoints which will cause it to lose its
- * NMI context with the CPU when the breakpoint does an iret.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-/*
- * For i386, NMIs use the same stack as the kernel, and we can
- * add a workaround to the iret problem in C (preventing nested
- * NMIs if an NMI takes a trap). Simply have 3 states the NMI
- * can be in:
+ * NMIs can hit breakpoints which will cause it to lose its NMI context
+ * with the CPU when the breakpoint or page fault does an IRET.
+ *
+ * As a result, NMIs can nest if NMIs get unmasked due an IRET during
+ * NMI processing.  On x86_64, the asm glue protects us from nested NMIs
+ * if the outer NMI came from kernel mode, but we can still nest if the
+ * outer NMI came from user mode.
+ *
+ * To handle these nested NMIs, we have three states:
  *
  *  1) not running
  *  2) executing
@@ -414,15 +414,14 @@ static __kprobes void default_do_nmi(str
  * (Note, the latch is binary, thus multiple NMIs triggering,
  *  when one is running, are ignored. Only one NMI is restarted.)
  *
- * If an NMI hits a breakpoint that executes an iret, another
- * NMI can preempt it. We do not want to allow this new NMI
- * to run, but we want to execute it when the first one finishes.
- * We set the state to "latched", and the exit of the first NMI will
- * perform a dec_return, if the result is zero (NOT_RUNNING), then
- * it will simply exit the NMI handler. If not, the dec_return
- * would have set the state to NMI_EXECUTING (what we want it to
- * be when we are running). In this case, we simply jump back
- * to rerun the NMI handler again, and restart the 'latched' NMI.
+ * If an NMI executes an iret, another NMI can preempt it. We do not
+ * want to allow this new NMI to run, but we want to execute it when the
+ * first one finishes.  We set the state to "latched", and the exit of
+ * the first NMI will perform a dec_return, if the result is zero
+ * (NOT_RUNNING), then it will simply exit the NMI handler. If not, the
+ * dec_return would have set the state to NMI_EXECUTING (what we want it
+ * to be when we are running). In this case, we simply jump back to
+ * rerun the NMI handler again, and restart the 'latched' NMI.
  *
  * No trap (breakpoint or page fault) should be hit before nmi_restart,
  * thus there is no race between the first check of state for NOT_RUNNING
@@ -445,49 +444,36 @@ enum nmi_states {
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(enum nmi_states, nmi_state);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, nmi_cr2);
 
-#define nmi_nesting_preprocess(regs)					\
-	do {								\
-		if (this_cpu_read(nmi_state) != NMI_NOT_RUNNING) {	\
-			this_cpu_write(nmi_state, NMI_LATCHED);		\
-			return;						\
-		}							\
-		this_cpu_write(nmi_state, NMI_EXECUTING);		\
-		this_cpu_write(nmi_cr2, read_cr2());			\
-	} while (0);							\
-	nmi_restart:
-
-#define nmi_nesting_postprocess()					\
-	do {								\
-		if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2) != read_cr2()))	\
-			write_cr2(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2));		\
-		if (this_cpu_dec_return(nmi_state))			\
-			goto nmi_restart;				\
-	} while (0)
-#else /* x86_64 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 /*
- * In x86_64 things are a bit more difficult. This has the same problem
- * where an NMI hitting a breakpoint that calls iret will remove the
- * NMI context, allowing a nested NMI to enter. What makes this more
- * difficult is that both NMIs and breakpoints have their own stack.
- * When a new NMI or breakpoint is executed, the stack is set to a fixed
- * point. If an NMI is nested, it will have its stack set at that same
- * fixed address that the first NMI had, and will start corrupting the
- * stack. This is handled in entry_64.S, but the same problem exists with
- * the breakpoint stack.
- *
- * If a breakpoint is being processed, and the debug stack is being used,
- * if an NMI comes in and also hits a breakpoint, the stack pointer
- * will be set to the same fixed address as the breakpoint that was
- * interrupted, causing that stack to be corrupted. To handle this case,
- * check if the stack that was interrupted is the debug stack, and if
- * so, change the IDT so that new breakpoints will use the current stack
- * and not switch to the fixed address. On return of the NMI, switch back
- * to the original IDT.
+ * In x86_64, we need to handle breakpoint -> NMI -> breakpoint.  Without
+ * some care, the inner breakpoint will clobber the outer breakpoint's
+ * stack.
+ *
+ * If a breakpoint is being processed, and the debug stack is being
+ * used, if an NMI comes in and also hits a breakpoint, the stack
+ * pointer will be set to the same fixed address as the breakpoint that
+ * was interrupted, causing that stack to be corrupted. To handle this
+ * case, check if the stack that was interrupted is the debug stack, and
+ * if so, change the IDT so that new breakpoints will use the current
+ * stack and not switch to the fixed address. On return of the NMI,
+ * switch back to the original IDT.
  */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, update_debug_stack);
+#endif
 
-static inline void nmi_nesting_preprocess(struct pt_regs *regs)
+dotraplinkage notrace void
+do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 {
+	if (this_cpu_read(nmi_state) != NMI_NOT_RUNNING) {
+		this_cpu_write(nmi_state, NMI_LATCHED);
+		return;
+	}
+	this_cpu_write(nmi_state, NMI_EXECUTING);
+	this_cpu_write(nmi_cr2, read_cr2());
+nmi_restart:
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	/*
 	 * If we interrupted a breakpoint, it is possible that
 	 * the nmi handler will have breakpoints too. We need to
@@ -498,22 +484,8 @@ static inline void nmi_nesting_preproces
 		debug_stack_set_zero();
 		this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 1);
 	}
-}
-
-static inline void nmi_nesting_postprocess(void)
-{
-	if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(update_debug_stack))) {
-		debug_stack_reset();
-		this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 0);
-	}
-}
 #endif
 
-dotraplinkage notrace __kprobes void
-do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
-{
-	nmi_nesting_preprocess(regs);
-
 	nmi_enter();
 
 	inc_irq_stat(__nmi_count);
@@ -523,8 +495,17 @@ do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_
 
 	nmi_exit();
 
-	/* On i386, may loop back to preprocess */
-	nmi_nesting_postprocess();
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(update_debug_stack))) {
+		debug_stack_reset();
+		this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2) != read_cr2()))
+		write_cr2(this_cpu_read(nmi_cr2));
+	if (this_cpu_dec_return(nmi_state))
+		goto nmi_restart;
 }
 
 void stop_nmi(void)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-3.14/x86-nmi-enable-nested-do_nmi-handling-for-64-bit-kernels.patch