Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:24:39 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/traps: Weaken context tracking entry assertions |
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:03:21PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > We were asserting that we were all the way in CONTEXT_KERNEL when > exception handlers were called. While having this be true is, I > think, a nice goal (or maybe a variant in which we assert that we're > in CONTEXT_KERNEL or some new IRQ context), we're not quite there. > > In particular, if an IRQ interrupts the SYSCALL prologue and the IRQ > handler in turn causes an exception, the exception entry will be > called in RCU IRQ mode but with CONTEXT_USER. > > This is okay (nothing goes wrong), but until we fix up the SYSCALL > prologue, we need to avoid warning.
We can avoid interrupts before the context tracking call but we'll never be able to remove all possibility for exceptions. I don't think we can assume that without making context tracking more fragile.
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
ACK!
Thanks!
We can indeed definetly trigger an exception in the kernel entry code (syscall, exception, irq) before the user_exit() call and that would break the checks. We can fix that later with context tracking calls on exception entry code. I still think an exception slow path based on static keys is the best way to go there.
> --- > arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 18 +++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > index 86a82eafb96f..45e8d9891fa3 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c > @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static inline void preempt_conditional_cli(struct pt_regs *regs) > void ist_enter(struct pt_regs *regs) > { > if (user_mode(regs)) { > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > } else { > /* > * We might have interrupted pretty much anything. In > @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void do_error_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code, char *str, > { > siginfo_t info; > > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > > if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP, str, regs, error_code, trapnr, signr) != > NOTIFY_STOP) { > @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > const struct bndcsr *bndcsr; > siginfo_t *info; > > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP, "bounds", regs, error_code, > X86_TRAP_BR, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP) > return; > @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ do_general_protection(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > struct task_struct *tsk; > > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > conditional_sti(regs); > > if (v8086_mode(regs)) { > @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ dotraplinkage void notrace do_int3(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > return; > > ist_enter(regs); > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > #ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP > if (kgdb_ll_trap(DIE_INT3, "int3", regs, error_code, X86_TRAP_BP, > SIGTRAP) == NOTIFY_STOP) > @@ -729,14 +729,14 @@ static void math_error(struct pt_regs *regs, int error_code, int trapnr) > > dotraplinkage void do_coprocessor_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > math_error(regs, error_code, X86_TRAP_MF); > } > > dotraplinkage void > do_simd_coprocessor_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > math_error(regs, error_code, X86_TRAP_XF); > } > > @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ do_spurious_interrupt_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > dotraplinkage void > do_device_not_available(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > BUG_ON(use_eager_fpu()); > > #ifdef CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION > @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_iret_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > { > siginfo_t info; > > - CT_WARN_ON(ct_state() != CONTEXT_KERNEL); > + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU"); > local_irq_enable(); > > info.si_signo = SIGILL; > -- > 2.4.3 >
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