[PATCH] x86/resctrl: Fix uninitialized memory read when last CPU of domain goes offline

Reinette Chatre
2024-03-28T21:12:39Z

Tony encountered the OOPS below when the last CPU of a domain goes
offline while running a kernel built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
...
RIP: 0010:__find_nth_andnot_bit+0x66/0x110
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x1f/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x176/0x5a0
? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x260
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? __pfx_resctrl_arch_offline_cpu+0x10/0x10
? __find_nth_andnot_bit+0x66/0x110
? __cancel_work+0x7d/0xc0
cpumask_any_housekeeping+0x55/0x110
mbm_setup_overflow_handler+0x40/0x70
resctrl_offline_cpu+0x101/0x110
resctrl_arch_offline_cpu+0x19/0x260
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x156/0x6b0
? cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5f/0x250
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1ca/0x250
? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
smpboot_thread_fn+0x184/0x220
kthread+0xe0/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

The NULL pointer dereference is encountered while searching for another
online CPU in the domain (of which there are none) that can be used to
run the MBM overflow handler.

Because the kernel is configured with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL the search for
another CPU (in its effort to prefer those CPUs that aren't marked
nohz_full) consults the mask representing the nohz_full CPUs,
tick_nohz_full_mask. On a kernel with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
tick_nohz_full_mask is not allocated unless the kernel is booted with
the "nohz_full=" parameter and because of that any access to
tick_nohz_full_mask needs to be guarded with tick_nohz_full_enabled().

Add a tick_nohz_full_enabled() check to ensure that tick_nohz_full_mask
has been initialized and can thus be accessed safely.

Fixes: a4846aaf3945 ("x86/resctrl: Add cpumask_any_housekeeping() for limbo/overflow")
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZgIFT5gZgIQ9A9G7@agluck-desk3/
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
index c99f26ebe7a6..4f9ef35626a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ cpumask_any_housekeeping(const struct cpumask *mask, int exclude_cpu)
if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids && !tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
return cpu;

+ /* Only continue if tick_nohz_full_mask has been initialized. */
+ if (!tick_nohz_full_enabled())
+ return cpu;
+
/* Try to find a CPU that isn't nohz_full to use in preference */
hk_cpu = cpumask_nth_andnot(0, mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
if (hk_cpu == exclude_cpu)
--
2.34.1