[PATCH] tracing: Call vmalloc_sync_mappings() after alloc_percpu()

Joerg Roedel
2020-05-05T12:31:51Z

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:10:06PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I'm fine with adding it to the tracing code (with that ridiculous
> comment! ;-)
>
> I'll even tag is as stable, but again, it's uncertain what commit that it
> "fixes".

Okay, so here it is. It fixes the issue for me and doesn't cause any
lockdep splats on my machine. I am not sure how far this needs to be
backported via stable, so I didn't specify it. Same with a Fixes tag.
Oh, and I added your comment :-) (which makes up most of the added
lines, so feel free to change authorship to you).

Regards,

Joerg

From a265290761dc9d87d35892dc821fd0f5c99f8b34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 14:17:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Call vmalloc_sync_mappings() after alloc_percpu()

Tracing code allocates percpu memory which is touched when trace events
happen. When the events happen in the page-fault handler and per-cpu
memory needs to be faulted in, the page-fault on per-cpu memory might
never complete.

Call vmalloc_sync_mappings() after allocating the runtime per-cpu
buffers to make sure they are mapped when the page-fault handler tries
to access them.

This is not a nice solution, but the best fix until the
vmalloc_sync_mappings/unmappings() interface can be ripped out of the
kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8d2b98812625..0fc56063fcca 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8525,6 +8525,19 @@ static int allocate_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr, int size)
*/
allocate_snapshot = false;
#endif
+
+ /*
+ * Because of some magic with the way alloc_percpu() works on
+ * x86_64, we need to synchronize the pgd of all the tables,
+ * otherwise the trace events that happen in x86_64 page fault
+ * handlers can't cope with accessing the chance that a
+ * alloc_percpu()'d memory might be touched in the page fault trace
+ * event. Oh, and we need to audit all alloc_percpu() and vmalloc()
+ * calls in tracing, because something might get triggered within a
+ * page fault trace event!
+ */
+ vmalloc_sync_mappings();
+
return 0;
}

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