[PATCH v6 02/11] x86: always set IF before oopsing from page fault

Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07T17:37:08Z

Oopsing might kill the task, via rewind_stack_do_exit() at the bottom, and
that might sleep:

Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.302714] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:33
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.303837] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1970, name: lkdtm_xpfo_test
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.304758] CPU: 3 PID: 1970 Comm: lkdtm_xpfo_test Tainted: G D 4.13.0-rc5+ #228
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.305813] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.1-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.306926] Call Trace:
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.307243] dump_stack+0x63/0x8b
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.307665] ___might_sleep+0xec/0x110
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.308139] __might_sleep+0x45/0x80
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.308593] exit_signals+0x21/0x1c0
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.309046] ? blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.309677] do_exit+0x98/0xbf0
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.310078] ? smp_reader+0x27/0x40 [lkdtm]
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.310604] ? kthread+0x10f/0x150
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.311045] ? read_user_with_flags+0x60/0x60 [lkdtm]
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.311680] rewind_stack_do_exit+0x17/0x20

To be safe, let's just always enable irqs.

The particular case I'm hitting is:

Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278615] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1a9/0x1d0
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278617] bad_area_nosemaphore+0xf/0x20
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278618] __do_page_fault+0xd1/0x540
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278620] ? irq_work_queue+0x9b/0xb0
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278623] ? wake_up_klogd+0x36/0x40
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278624] trace_do_page_fault+0x3c/0xf0
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278625] do_async_page_fault+0x14/0x60
Aug 23 19:30:27 xpfo kernel: [ 38.278627] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30

When a fault is in kernel space which has been triggered by XPFO.

Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>
CC: x86@kernel.org
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 2a1fa10c6a98..7572ad4dae70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -864,6 +864,12 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
/* Executive summary in case the body of the oops scrolled away */
printk(KERN_DEFAULT "CR2: %016lx\n", address);

+ /*
+ * We're about to oops, which might kill the task. Make sure we're
+ * allowed to sleep.
+ */
+ flags |= X86_EFLAGS_IF;
+
oops_end(flags, regs, sig);
}

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2.11.0