Re: [PATCH v3] x86,mm: print likely CPU at segfault time

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 16:27:40 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 10:16:44AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > > index fad8faa29d04..c7a5bbf40367 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > > @@ -769,6 +769,8 @@ show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> > >  		unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > >  {
> > >  	const char *loglvl = task_pid_nr(tsk) > 1 ? KERN_INFO : KERN_EMERG;
> > > +	/* This is a racy snapshot, but it's better than nothing. */
> > > +	int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();  
> > 
> > Please read this in exc_page_fault() and hand it down to helpers.
> 
> Below is the change that implements your suggestion.
> 
> If there is consensus among the x86 maintainers that this is
> desirable, I am more than happy to merge that change into my
> patch and resubmit v4.
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion either way.
> 
> ---8<---
> 
> From 444f8588f0edfd8586a86e85191ad8fa8b7c6a6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:32:11 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86,mm: get CPU number for segfault printk before
>  enabling preemption
> 
> Get the CPU number for the segfault printk earlier in the page fault
> handler, before preemption is enabled.
> 
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index c7a5bbf40367..bd06b22826b2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -766,11 +766,9 @@ kernelmode_fixup_or_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>   */
>  static inline void
>  show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> -		unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk)
> +		unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)

>  __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> -		       unsigned long address, u32 pkey, int si_code)
> +		       unsigned long address, u32 pkey, int si_code, int cpu)

> -		show_signal_msg(regs, error_code, address, tsk);
> +		show_signal_msg(regs, error_code, address, tsk, cpu);

> -		     unsigned long address)
> +		     unsigned long address, int cpu)

> -	   unsigned long address, u32 pkey, int si_code)
> +	   unsigned long address, u32 pkey, int si_code, int cpu)

> -	__bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, pkey, si_code);
> +	__bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, pkey, si_code, cpu);

> -bad_area(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address)
> +bad_area(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address,
> +	 int cpu)
>  {
> -	__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, 0, SEGV_MAPERR);
> +	__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, 0, SEGV_MAPERR, cpu);

>  bad_area_access_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> -		      unsigned long address, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +		      unsigned long address, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +		      int cpu)

> -		__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, pkey, SEGV_PKUERR);
> +		__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, pkey, SEGV_PKUERR, cpu);
>  	} else {
> -		__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, 0, SEGV_ACCERR);
> +		__bad_area(regs, error_code, address, 0, SEGV_ACCERR, cpu);

>  static void
>  do_kern_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long hw_error_code,
> -		   unsigned long address)
> +		   unsigned long address, int cpu)

> -	bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, hw_error_code, address);
> +	bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, hw_error_code, address, cpu);

>  void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
>  			unsigned long error_code,
> -			unsigned long address)
> +			unsigned long address,
> +			int cpu)

> -		bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address);
> +		bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -			bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address);
> +			bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -		bad_area(regs, error_code, address);
> +		bad_area(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -		bad_area(regs, error_code, address);
> +		bad_area(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -		bad_area(regs, error_code, address);
> +		bad_area(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -		bad_area_access_error(regs, error_code, address, vma);
> +		bad_area_access_error(regs, error_code, address, vma, cpu);

> -			bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address);
> +			bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -			      unsigned long address)
> +			      unsigned long address, int cpu)

> -		do_kern_addr_fault(regs, error_code, address);
> +		do_kern_addr_fault(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

> -		do_user_addr_fault(regs, error_code, address);
> +		do_user_addr_fault(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

>  DEFINE_IDTENTRY_RAW_ERRORCODE(exc_page_fault)
>  {
>  	unsigned long address = read_cr2();
> +	int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>  	irqentry_state_t state;
>  
>  	prefetchw(&current->mm->mmap_lock);
> @@ -1547,7 +1549,7 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_RAW_ERRORCODE(exc_page_fault)
>  	state = irqentry_enter(regs);
>  
>  	instrumentation_begin();
> -	handle_page_fault(regs, error_code, address);
> +	handle_page_fault(regs, error_code, address, cpu);

Not convinced that this is a good change: this will bloat all the affected 
code by a couple of dozen instructions - for no good reason in the context 
of this patch.

Boris, why should we do this? Extracting a parameter at higher levels and 
passing it down to lower levels is almost always a bad idea from a code 
generation POV, unless the majority of lower levels needs this information 
anyway (which isn't the case here).

Thanks,

	Ingo