[PATCH 5.4 181/214] x86/hotplug: Silence APIC only after all interrupts are migrated

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-01T16:16:47Z

From: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>

commit 52d6b926aabc47643cd910c85edb262b7f44c168 upstream.

There is a race when taking a CPU offline. Current code looks like this:

native_cpu_disable()
{
...
apic_soft_disable();
/*
* Any existing set bits for pending interrupt to
* this CPU are preserved and will be sent via IPI
* to another CPU by fixup_irqs().
*/
cpu_disable_common();
{
....
/*
* Race window happens here. Once local APIC has been
* disabled any new interrupts from the device to
* the old CPU are lost
*/
fixup_irqs(); // Too late to capture anything in IRR.
...
}
}

The fix is to disable the APIC *after* cpu_disable_common().

Testing was done with a USB NIC that provided a source of frequent
interrupts. A script migrated interrupts to a specific CPU and
then took that CPU offline.

Fixes: 60dcaad5736f ("x86/hotplug: Silence APIC and NMI when CPU is dead")
Reported-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/875zdarr4h.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1598501530-45821-1-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1599,14 +1599,28 @@ int native_cpu_disable(void)
if (ret)
return ret;

- /*
- * Disable the local APIC. Otherwise IPI broadcasts will reach
- * it. It still responds normally to INIT, NMI, SMI, and SIPI
- * messages.
- */
- apic_soft_disable();
cpu_disable_common();

+ /*
+ * Disable the local APIC. Otherwise IPI broadcasts will reach
+ * it. It still responds normally to INIT, NMI, SMI, and SIPI
+ * messages.
+ *
+ * Disabling the APIC must happen after cpu_disable_common()
+ * which invokes fixup_irqs().
+ *
+ * Disabling the APIC preserves already set bits in IRR, but
+ * an interrupt arriving after disabling the local APIC does not
+ * set the corresponding IRR bit.
+ *
+ * fixup_irqs() scans IRR for set bits so it can raise a not
+ * yet handled interrupt on the new destination CPU via an IPI
+ * but obviously it can't do so for IRR bits which are not set.
+ * IOW, interrupts arriving after disabling the local APIC will
+ * be lost.
+ */
+ apic_soft_disable();
+
return 0;
}