Patch "kvm/x86: Handle async PF in RCU read-side critical sections" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kvm/x86: Handle async PF in RCU read-side critical sections

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-x86-handle-async-pf-in-rcu-read-side-critical-sections.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b862789aa5186d5ea3a024b7cfe0f80c3a38b980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:01:45 +0800
Subject: kvm/x86: Handle async PF in RCU read-side critical sections

From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

commit b862789aa5186d5ea3a024b7cfe0f80c3a38b980 upstream.

Sasha Levin reported a WARNING:

| WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6974 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:329
| rcu_preempt_note_context_switch kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:329 [inline]
| WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6974 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:329
| rcu_note_context_switch+0x16c/0x2210 kernel/rcu/tree.c:458
...
| CPU: 0 PID: 6974 Comm: syz-fuzzer Not tainted 4.13.0-next-20170908+ #246
| Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
| 1.10.1-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
| Call Trace:
...
| RIP: 0010:rcu_preempt_note_context_switch kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:329 [inline]
| RIP: 0010:rcu_note_context_switch+0x16c/0x2210 kernel/rcu/tree.c:458
| RSP: 0018:ffff88003b2debc8 EFLAGS: 00010002
| RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 1ffff1000765bd85 RCX: 0000000000000000
| RDX: 1ffff100075d7882 RSI: ffffffffb5c7da20 RDI: ffff88003aebc410
| RBP: ffff88003b2def30 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
| R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88003b2def08
| R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88003aebc040 R15: ffff88003aebc040
| __schedule+0x201/0x2240 kernel/sched/core.c:3292
| schedule+0x113/0x460 kernel/sched/core.c:3421
| kvm_async_pf_task_wait+0x43f/0x940 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:158
| do_async_page_fault+0x72/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:271
| async_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1069
| RIP: 0010:format_decode+0x240/0x830 lib/vsprintf.c:1996
| RSP: 0018:ffff88003b2df520 EFLAGS: 00010283
| RAX: 000000000000003f RBX: ffffffffb5d1e141 RCX: ffff88003b2df670
| RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: ffffffffb5d1e140
| RBP: ffff88003b2df560 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
| R10: ffff88003b2df718 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88003b2df5d8
| R13: 0000000000000064 R14: ffffffffb5d1e140 R15: 0000000000000000
| vsnprintf+0x173/0x1700 lib/vsprintf.c:2136
| sprintf+0xbe/0xf0 lib/vsprintf.c:2386
| proc_self_get_link+0xfb/0x1c0 fs/proc/self.c:23
| get_link fs/namei.c:1047 [inline]
| link_path_walk+0x1041/0x1490 fs/namei.c:2127
...

This happened when the host hit a page fault, and delivered it as in an
async page fault, while the guest was in an RCU read-side critical
section.  The guest then tries to reschedule in kvm_async_pf_task_wait(),
but rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() would treat the reschedule as a
sleep in RCU read-side critical section, which is not allowed (even in
preemptible RCU).  Thus the WARN.

To cure this, make kvm_async_pf_task_wait() go to the halt path if the
PF happens in a RCU read-side critical section.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ void kvm_async_pf_task_wait(u32 token)
 
 	n.token = token;
 	n.cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	n.halted = is_idle_task(current) || preempt_count() > 1;
+	n.halted = is_idle_task(current) || preempt_count() > 1 ||
+		   rcu_preempt_depth();
 	init_swait_queue_head(&n.wq);
 	hlist_add_head(&n.link, &b->list);
 	raw_spin_unlock(&b->lock);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boqun.feng@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/kvm-x86-handle-async-pf-in-rcu-read-side-critical-sections.patch