Re: Kernel panic while doing vfio-pci hot-plug/unplug test

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

[+cc Matthew]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 09:36:23PM +0800, Xiang Zheng wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I encountered a kernel panic while doing vfio-pci hot-plug/unplug test repeatly on my Arm-KVM virtual machines.
> See the call stack below:
> 
> [66628.697280] vfio-pci 0000:06:03.5: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66628.809290] vfio-pci 0000:06:03.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66628.921283] vfio-pci 0000:06:02.7: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66629.029280] vfio-pci 0000:06:03.6: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66629.137338] vfio-pci 0000:06:03.2: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66629.249285] vfio-pci 0000:06:03.7: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [66630.237261] Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address ffff802dac469000
> [66630.246266] Mem abort info:
> [66630.249047]   ESR = 0x8600000d
> [66630.252088]   Exception class = IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [66630.257981]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [66630.261022]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [66630.264150] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000fb16886e
> [66630.270992] [ffff802dac469000] pgd=0000203fffff6803, pud=00e8002d80000f11
> [66630.277751] Internal error: Oops: 8600000d [#1] SMP
> [66630.282606] Process qemu-kvm (pid: 37201, stack limit = 0x00000000d8f19858)
> [66630.289537] CPU: 41 PID: 37201 Comm: qemu-kvm Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     4.19.36-vhulk1907.1.0.h453.eulerosv2r8.aarch64 #1
> [66630.301822] Hardware name: Huawei TaiShan 2280 V2/BC82AMDDA, BIOS 0.88 07/24/2019
> [66630.309270] pstate: 80400089 (Nzcv daIf +PAN -UAO)
> [66630.314042] pc : 0xffff802dac469000
> [66630.317519] lr : __wake_up_common+0x90/0x1a8
> [66630.321768] sp : ffff00027746bb00
> [66630.325067] x29: ffff00027746bb00 x28: 0000000000000000
> [66630.330355] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff0000092755b8
> [66630.335643] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
> [66630.340930] x23: 0000000000000003 x22: ffff00027746bbc0
> [66630.346219] x21: 000000000954c000 x20: ffff0001f542bc6c
> [66630.351506] x19: ffff0001f542bb90 x18: 0000000000000000
> [66630.356793] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> [66630.362081] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
> [66630.367368] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
> [66630.372655] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000bb0
> [66630.377942] x9 : ffff00027746ba50 x8 : ffff80367ff6ca10
> [66630.383229] x7 : ffff802e20d59200 x6 : 000000000000003f
> [66630.388517] x5 : ffff00027746bbc0 x4 : ffff802dac469000
> [66630.393806] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000
> [66630.399093] x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : ffff0001f542bb90
> [66630.404381] Call trace:
> [66630.406818]  0xffff802dac469000
> [66630.409945]  __wake_up_common_lock+0xa8/0x1a0
> [66630.414283]  __wake_up+0x40/0x50
> [66630.417499]  pci_cfg_access_unlock+0x9c/0xd0
> [66630.421752]  pci_try_reset_function+0x58/0x78
> [66630.426095]  vfio_pci_ioctl+0x478/0xdb8 [vfio_pci]
> [66630.430870]  vfio_device_fops_unl_ioctl+0x44/0x70 [vfio]
> [66630.436158]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x8c0
> [66630.439718]  ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
> [66630.443018]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38
> [66630.446925]  el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
> [66630.450657]  el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
> [66630.454389]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> [66630.457260] Code: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 (ac46d000)
> [66630.463325] kernel fault(0x1) notification starting on CPU 41
> [66630.469044] kernel fault(0x1) notification finished on CPU 41
> 
> The chance to reproduce this problem is very small. We had an initial analysis of this problem,
> and found it was caused by the illegal value of the 'curr->func' in the __wake_up_common() function.
> 
> I cannot image how 'curr->func' can be wrote to 0xffff802dac469000. Is there any problem about
> concurrent competition between the pci_wait_cfg() function and the wake_up_all() function?

I haven't heard of a problem there, but that doesn't mean there isn't
one.

The fact that pci_wait_cfg() uses __add_wait_queue() (not
add_wait_queue(), which does more locking) makes me a little
suspicious.  Most of the other callers of __add_wait_queue() acquire
the wait_queue lock themselves, but pci_wait_cfg() doesn't.

This was added by 7ea7e98fd8d0 ("PCI: Block on access to temporarily
unavailable pci device"), and the commit log suggests that the
pci_lock is sufficient.  All callers of pci_wait_cfg() do hold
pci_lock, and the "pci_cfg_wait" queue is private, but ...
pci_cfg_access_unlock() calls wake_up_all(&pci_cfg_wait) *without*
holding pci_lock.  That path leads to __wake_up_common_lock(), which
depends on wq_head->lock, which pci_wait_cfg() doesn't use.

pci_cfg_access_unlock() originally *did* hold pci_lock while calling
wake_up_all(), but I changed that with cdcb33f98244 ("PCI: Avoid
possible deadlock on pci_lock and p->pi_lock") without understanding
both sides of the wait_queue locking issue.

But I still don't understand enough to know whether this is actually
the problem or to propose a fix.

Bjorn