[PATCH 4.19 024/346] x86/membarrier: Get rid of a dubious optimization

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-12-28T13:22:45Z

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit a493d1ca1a03b532871f1da27f8dbda2b28b04c4 upstream.

sync_core_before_usermode() had an incorrect optimization. If the kernel
returns from an interrupt, it can get to usermode without IRET. It just has
to schedule to a different task in the same mm and do SYSRET. Fortunately,
there were no callers of sync_core_before_usermode() that could have had
in_irq() or in_nmi() equal to true, because it's only ever called from the
scheduler.

While at it, clarify a related comment.

Fixes: 70216e18e519 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5afc7632be1422f91eaf7611aaaa1b5b8580a086.1607058304.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h | 9 +++++----
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@ static inline void sync_core_before_user
/* With PTI, we unconditionally serialize before running user code. */
if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
return;
+
/*
- * Return from interrupt and NMI is done through iret, which is core
- * serializing.
+ * Even if we're in an interrupt, we might reschedule before returning,
+ * in which case we could switch to a different thread in the same mm
+ * and return using SYSRET or SYSEXIT. Instead of trying to keep
+ * track of our need to sync the core, just sync right away.
*/
- if (in_irq() || in_nmi())
- return;
sync_core();
}

--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -321,8 +321,14 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct
/*
* The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier and
* core serialization before returning to user-space, after
- * storing to rq->curr. Writing to CR3 provides that full
- * memory barrier and core serializing instruction.
+ * storing to rq->curr, when changing mm. This is because
+ * membarrier() sends IPIs to all CPUs that are in the target mm
+ * to make them issue memory barriers. However, if another CPU
+ * switches to/from the target mm concurrently with
+ * membarrier(), it can cause that CPU not to receive an IPI
+ * when it really should issue a memory barrier. Writing to CR3
+ * provides that full memory barrier and core serializing
+ * instruction.
*/
if (real_prev == next) {
VM_WARN_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.ctxs[prev_asid].ctx_id) !=