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* [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/crash: Fix double NMI shootdown bug
@ 2022-05-18  0:16 Sean Christopherson
  2022-05-18  0:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/crash: Disable virt in core NMI crash handler to avoid double shootdown Sean Christopherson
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Sean Christopherson @ 2022-05-18  0:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86
  Cc: H. Peter Anvin, linux-kernel, Guilherme G . Piccoli,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov, Paolo Bonzini, Sean Christopherson

Fix a double NMI shootdown bug found and debugged by Guilherme, who did all
the hard work.  NMI shootdown is a one-time thing; the handler leaves NMIs
blocked and enters halt.  At best, a second (or third...) shootdown is an
expensive nop, at worst it can hang the kernel and prevent kexec'ing into
a new kernel, e.g. prior to the hardening of register_nmi_handler(), a
double shootdown resulted in a double list_add(), which is fatal when running
with CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y.

With the "right" kexec/kdump configuration, emergency_vmx_disable_all() can
be reached after kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus() (currently the only two users
of nmi_shootdown_cpus()).

To fix, move the disabling of virtualization into crash_nmi_callback(),
remove emergency_vmx_disable_all()'s callback, and do a shootdown for
emergency_vmx_disable_all() if and only if a shootdown hasn't yet occurred.
The only thing emergency_vmx_disable_all() cares about is disabling VMX/SVM
(obviously), and since I can't envision a use case for an NMI shootdown that
doesn't want to disable virtualization, doing that in the core handler means
emergency_vmx_disable_all() only needs to ensure _a_ shootdown occurs, it
doesn't care when that shootdown happened or what callback may have run.

Patch 2 is a related bug fix found while exploring ideas for patch 1.
Patch 3 is a cleanup to try to prevent future "fixed VMX but not SVM"
style bugs.

Guilherme and Vitaly, I dropped your Tested-by and Reviewed-by tags
since the relevant patches changed a decent amount.

v2:
  - Use a NULL handler and crash_ipi_issued instead of a magic nop
    handler. [tglx]
  - Add comments to call out that modifying the existing handler
    once the NMI is sent may cause explosions.
  - Add a patch to cleanup cpu_emergency_vmxoff().

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220511234332.3654455-1-seanjc@google.com

Sean Christopherson (3):
  x86/crash: Disable virt in core NMI crash handler to avoid double
    shootdown
  x86/reboot: Disable virtualization in an emergency if SVM is supported
  x86/virt: Fold __cpu_emergency_vmxoff() into its sole caller

 arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h  |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/virtext.h | 14 +-----
 arch/x86/kernel/crash.c        | 16 +-----
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c       | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)


base-commit: a7fed5c0431dbfa707037848830f980e0f93cfb3
-- 
2.36.0.550.gb090851708-goog


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2022-05-18  0:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/crash: Disable virt in core NMI crash handler to avoid double shootdown Sean Christopherson
2022-05-18 15:50   ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-05-18  0:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/reboot: Disable virtualization in an emergency if SVM is supported Sean Christopherson
2022-05-18  0:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/virt: Fold __cpu_emergency_vmxoff() into its sole caller Sean Christopherson
2022-06-03 16:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/crash: Fix double NMI shootdown bug Guilherme G. Piccoli
2022-07-08 23:28 ` Sean Christopherson
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