[V6 PATCH 1/6] panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

Hidehiro Kawai
2015-12-10T01:50:57Z

If panic on NMI happens just after panic() on the same CPU, panic()
is recursively called. As the result, it stalls after failing to
acquire panic_lock.

To avoid this problem, don't call panic() in NMI context if
we've already entered panic().

V6:
- Add a comment about panic_cpu
- Replace the magic number -1 for panic_cpu with a macro

V4:
- Improve comments in io_check_error() and panic()

V3:
- Introduce nmi_panic() macro to reduce code duplication
- In the case of panic on NMI, don't return from NMI handlers
if another CPU already panicked

V2:
- Use atomic_cmpxchg() instead of current spin_trylock() to
exclude concurrent accesses to the panic routines
- Don't introduce no-lock version of panic()

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
include/linux/kernel.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/panic.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
kernel/watchdog.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 697f90d..5131714 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ pci_serr_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
#endif

if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
- panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");

pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");

@@ -255,8 +255,16 @@ io_check_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
reason, smp_processor_id());
show_regs(regs);

- if (panic_on_io_nmi)
- panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+ if (panic_on_io_nmi) {
+ nmi_panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+
+ /*
+ * If we return from nmi_panic(), it means we have received
+ * NMI while processing panic(). So, simply return without
+ * a delay and re-enabling NMI.
+ */
+ return;
+ }

/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
reason = (reason & NMI_REASON_CLEAR_MASK) | NMI_REASON_CLEAR_IOCHK;
@@ -297,7 +305,7 @@ unknown_nmi_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)

pr_emerg("Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?\n");
if (unknown_nmi_panic || panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
- panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+ nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");

pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 350dfb0..db66867 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -446,6 +446,27 @@ extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
extern bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;

/*
+ * panic_cpu holds a panicking CPU number and is used for exclusive
+ * execution of panic and crash_kexec routines. If the value is
+ * PANIC_CPU_INVALID, it means that none of CPU has entered panic or
+ * crash_kexec.
+ */
+extern atomic_t panic_cpu;
+#define PANIC_CPU_INVALID -1
+
+/*
+ * A variant of panic() called from NMI context.
+ * If we've already panicked on this CPU, return from here.
+ */
+#define nmi_panic(fmt, ...) \
+ do { \
+ int this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); \
+ if (atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu) \
+ != this_cpu) \
+ panic(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
+ } while (0)
+
+/*
* Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
* CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
*/
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 4b150bc..3261e2d 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
cpu_relax();
}

+atomic_t panic_cpu = ATOMIC_INIT(PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+
/**
* panic - halt the system
* @fmt: The text string to print
@@ -71,17 +73,17 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
*/
void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
{
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(panic_lock);
static char buf[1024];
va_list args;
long i, i_next = 0;
int state = 0;
+ int old_cpu, this_cpu;

/*
* Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
* from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
* there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
- * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+ * after setting panic_cpu) from invoking panic again.
*/
local_irq_disable();

@@ -94,8 +96,15 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
* multiple parallel invocations of panic, all other CPUs either
* stop themself or will wait until they are stopped by the 1st CPU
* with smp_send_stop().
+ *
+ * `old_cpu == PANIC_CPU_INVALID' means this is the 1st CPU which
+ * comes here, so go ahead.
+ * `old_cpu == this_cpu' means we came from nmi_panic() which sets
+ * panic_cpu to this CPU. In this case, this is also the 1st CPU.
*/
- if (!spin_trylock(&panic_lock))
+ this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+ old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu);
+ if (old_cpu != PANIC_CPU_INVALID && old_cpu != this_cpu)
panic_smp_self_stop();

console_verbose();
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 18f34cf..b9be18f 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();

if (hardlockup_panic)
- panic("Hard LOCKUP");
+ nmi_panic("Hard LOCKUP");

__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
return;