[PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix per-CPU access in preemptible context

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Jul 6 07:05:20 EDT 2020


Commit 07da1ffaa137 ("KVM: arm64: Remove host_cpu_context
member from vcpu structure") has, by removing the host CPU
context pointer, exposed that kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest
is called in preemptible contexts:

[  266.932442] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: qemu-system-aar/779
[  266.939721] caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x20/0x30
[  266.944157] CPU: 2 PID: 779 Comm: qemu-system-aar Tainted: G            E     5.8.0-rc3-00015-g8d4aa58b2fe3 #1374
[  266.954268] Hardware name: amlogic w400/w400, BIOS 2020.04 05/22/2020
[  266.960640] Call trace:
[  266.963064]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1e0
[  266.966679]  show_stack+0x20/0x30
[  266.969959]  dump_stack+0xe4/0x154
[  266.973338]  check_preemption_disabled+0xf8/0x108
[  266.977978]  debug_smp_processor_id+0x20/0x30
[  266.982307]  kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest+0x2c/0x68
[  266.986949]  access_pmcr+0xf8/0x128
[  266.990399]  perform_access+0x8c/0x250
[  266.994108]  kvm_handle_sys_reg+0x10c/0x2f8
[  266.998247]  handle_exit+0x78/0x200
[  267.001697]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2ac/0xab8

Note that the bug was always there, it is only the switch to
using percpu accessors that made it obvious.
The fix is to wrap these accesses in a preempt-disabled section,
so that we sample a coherent context on trap from the guest.

Fixes: 435e53fb5e21 ("arm64: KVM: Enable VHE support for :G/:H perf event modifiers")
Cc:: Andrew Murray <amurray at thegoodpenguin.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c
index b5ae3a5d509e..3c224162b3dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -159,7 +159,10 @@ static void kvm_vcpu_pmu_disable_el0(unsigned long events)
 }
 
 /*
- * On VHE ensure that only guest events have EL0 counting enabled
+ * On VHE ensure that only guest events have EL0 counting enabled.
+ * This is called from both vcpu_{load,put} and the sysreg handling.
+ * Since the latter is preemptible, special care must be taken to
+ * disable preemption.
  */
 void kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
@@ -169,12 +172,14 @@ void kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!has_vhe())
 		return;
 
+	preempt_disable();
 	host = this_cpu_ptr(&kvm_host_data);
 	events_guest = host->pmu_events.events_guest;
 	events_host = host->pmu_events.events_host;
 
 	kvm_vcpu_pmu_enable_el0(events_guest);
 	kvm_vcpu_pmu_disable_el0(events_host);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.27.0




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