tree 601bbcfaf10b1756d63b0f54d6652310168aeccf
parent 2338de43e234d7144c1dff900bf3422b1523ac00
author David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> 1492583906 +1000
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1495719883 +0200

powerpc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm()

commit 9765ad134a00a01cbcc69c78ff6defbfad209bc5 upstream.

powerpc expects IRQs to already be (soft) disabled when switch_mm() is
called, as made clear in the commit message of 9c1e105238c4 ("powerpc: Allow
perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time").

Aside from any race conditions that might exist between switch_mm() and an IRQ,
there is also an unconditional hard_irq_disable() in switch_slb(). If that isn't
followed at some point by an IRQ enable then interrupts will remain disabled
until we return to userspace.

It is true that when switch_mm() is called from the scheduler IRQs are off, but
not when it's called by use_mm(). Looking closer we see that last year in commit
f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
this was made more explicit by the addition of switch_mm_irqs_off() which is now
called by the scheduler, vs switch_mm() which is used by use_mm().

Arguably it is a bug in use_mm() to call switch_mm() in a different context than
it expects, but fixing that will take time.

This was discovered recently when vhost started throwing warnings such as:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:578
  in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 10768, name: vhost-10760
  no locks held by vhost-10760/10768.
  irq event stamp: 10
  hardirqs last  enabled at (9):  _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x40/0x80
  hardirqs last disabled at (10): switch_slb+0x2e4/0x490
  softirqs last  enabled at (0):  copy_process+0x5e8/0x1260
  softirqs last disabled at (0):  (null)
  Call Trace:
    show_stack+0x88/0x390 (unreliable)
    dump_stack+0x30/0x44
    __might_sleep+0x1c4/0x2d0
    mutex_lock_nested+0x74/0x5c0
    cgroup_attach_task_all+0x5c/0x180
    vhost_attach_cgroups_work+0x58/0x80 [vhost]
    vhost_worker+0x24c/0x3d0 [vhost]
    kthread+0xec/0x100
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xd4

Prior to commit 04b96e5528ca ("vhost: lockless enqueuing") (Aug 2016) the
vhost_worker() would do a spin_unlock_irq() not long after calling use_mm(),
which had the effect of reenabling IRQs. Since that commit removed the locking
in vhost_worker() the body of the vhost_worker() loop now runs with interrupts
off causing the warnings.

This patch addresses the problem by making the powerpc code mirror the x86 code,
ie. we disable interrupts in switch_mm(), and optimise the scheduler case by
defining switch_mm_irqs_off().

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[mpe: Flesh out/rewrite change log, add stable]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>