Patch "x86/mm, sched/core: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "x86/mm, sched/core: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/mm, sched/core: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm()

to the 4.4-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:
     x86-mm-sched-core-turn-off-irqs-in-switch_mm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 078194f8e9fe3cf54c8fd8bded48a1db5bd8eb8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:39:09 -0700
Subject: x86/mm, sched/core: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 078194f8e9fe3cf54c8fd8bded48a1db5bd8eb8a upstream.

Potential races between switch_mm() and TLB-flush or LDT-flush IPIs
could be very messy.  AFAICT the code is currently okay, whether by
accident or by careful design, but enabling PCID will make it
considerably more complicated and will no longer be obviously safe.

Fix it with a big hammer: run switch_mm() with IRQs off.

To avoid a performance hit in the scheduler, we take advantage of
our knowledge that the scheduler already has IRQs disabled when it
calls switch_mm().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f19baf759693c9dcae64bbff76189db77cb13398.1461688545.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h |    3 +++
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                  |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ static inline void enter_lazy_tlb(struct
 extern void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 		      struct task_struct *tsk);
 
+extern void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
+			       struct task_struct *tsk);
+#define switch_mm_irqs_off switch_mm_irqs_off
 
 #define activate_mm(prev, next)			\
 do {						\
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);
 void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 	       struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	switch_mm_irqs_off(prev, next, tsk);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
+			struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
 	unsigned cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	if (likely(prev != next)) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-uninline-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
queue-4.4/x86-irq-do-not-substract-irq_tlb_count-from-irq_call_count.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-if-invpcid-is-available-use-it-to-flush-global-mappings.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-invpcid-helpers.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-add-switch_mm_irqs_off-and-use-it-in-the-scheduler.patch
queue-4.4/arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-turn-off-irqs-in-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/mm-mmu_context-sched-core-fix-mmu_context.h-assumption.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-build-arch-x86-mm-tlb.c-even-on-smp.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.patch