[PATCH] RFC: riscv: save the SR_SUM status over switches

Alex Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Mar 18 16:57:53 GMT 2021


Hi Ben,

Le 3/18/21 à 11:10 AM, Ben Dooks a écrit :
> When threads/tasks are switched we need to ensure the old execution's
> SR_SUM state is saved and the new thread has the old SR_SUM state
> restored.
> 
> The issue is seen under heavy load especially with the syz-stress tool
> running, with crashes as follows in schedule_tail:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 000000002749f0d0
> Oops [#1]
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 4875 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00467-g0d7588ab9ef9 #0
> Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> epc : schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264
>   ra : task_pid_vnr include/linux/sched.h:1421 [inline]
>   ra : schedule_tail+0x70/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264
> epc : ffffffe00008c8b0 ra : ffffffe00008c8ae sp : ffffffe025d17ec0
>   gp : ffffffe005d25378 tp : ffffffe00f0d0000 t0 : 0000000000000000
>   t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 00000000000f4240 s0 : ffffffe025d17ee0
>   s1 : 000000002749f0d0 a0 : 000000000000002a a1 : 0000000000000003
>   a2 : 1ffffffc0cfac500 a3 : ffffffe0000c80cc a4 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00
>   a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000f00000 a7 : ffffffe000082eba
>   s2 : 0000000000040000 s3 : ffffffe00eef96c0 s4 : ffffffe022c77fe0
>   s5 : 0000000000004000 s6 : ffffffe067d74e00 s7 : ffffffe067d74850
>   s8 : ffffffe067d73e18 s9 : ffffffe067d74e00 s10: ffffffe00eef96e8
>   s11: 000000ae6cdf8368 t3 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00 t4 : ffffffc4043cafb2
>   t5 : ffffffc4043cafba t6 : 0000000000040000
> status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 000000002749f0d0 cause: 000000000000000f
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffe00008c8b0>] schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264
> [<ffffffe000005570>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0x14
> Dumping ftrace buffer:
>     (ftrace buffer empty)
> ---[ end trace b5f8f9231dc87dda ]---
> 
> The issue comes from the put_user() in schedule_tail (kernel/sched/core.c)
> doing the following:
> 
> asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev)
> {
> ...
>          if (current->set_child_tid)
>                  put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid);
> ...
> }
> 
> the put_user() macro causes the code sequence to come out as follows:
> 
> 1:	__enable_user_access()
> 2:	reg = task_pid_vnr(current);
> 3:	*current->set_child_tid = reg;
> 4:	__disable_user_access()
> 
> This means the task_pid_vnr() is being called with user-access enabled
> which itself is not a good idea, but that is a seperate issue. Here we
> have a function that /might/ sleep being called with the SR_SUM and if
> it does, then it returns with the SR_SUM flag possibly cleared thus
> causing the above abort.
> 
> To try and deal with this, and stop the SR_SUM leaking out into other
> threads (this has also been tested and see under stress. It can rarely
> happen but it /does/ under load) make sure the __switch_to() will save
> and restore the SR_SUM flag, and clear it possibly for the next thread
> if it does not need it.
> 
> Note, test code to be supplied once other checks have been finished.

Very nice, good catch !

> 
> There may be further issues with the mstatus flags with this, this
> can be discussed further once some initial testing has been done.

Yes, that must be discussed, I don't have opinion right now but if this 
is the only bit to save/restore, we may consider other options: disable 
preemption, using __typeof(x) like suggested by Dmitry to avoid being 
scheduled and maybe other options.

> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+e74b94fe601ab9552d69 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
> Cc: Javier Jardon <javier.jardon at codethink.co.uk>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
>   arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c    | 5 +++++
>   arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S          | 7 +++++++
>   3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> index 021ed64ee608..e2398c6e7af9 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
>   	unsigned long s[12];	/* s[0]: frame pointer */
>   	struct __riscv_d_ext_state fstate;
>   	unsigned long bad_cause;
> +	unsigned long flags;

I would not call it "flags", I'd rather use "status", named after 
CSR_STATUS.

>   };
>   
>   #define INIT_THREAD {					\
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> index 9ef33346853c..0036570752d9 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S9, task_struct, thread.s[9]);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S10, task_struct, thread.s[10]);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_S11, task_struct, thread.s[11]);
> +	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_FLAGS, task_struct, thread.flags);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_FLAGS, task_struct, thread_info.flags);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT, task_struct, thread_info.preempt_count);
>   	OFFSET(TASK_TI_KERNEL_SP, task_struct, thread_info.kernel_sp);
> @@ -172,6 +173,10 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
>   		  offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.s[11])
>   		- offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.ra)
>   	);
> +	DEFINE(TASK_THREAD_FLAGS_RA,
> +		  offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.flags)
> +		- offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.ra)
> +	);
>   
>   	DEFINE(TASK_THREAD_F0_F0,
>   		  offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.fstate.f[0])
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index 744f3209c48d..6137f6c2a2ad 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -417,7 +417,14 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to)
>   	REG_S s9,  TASK_THREAD_S9_RA(a3)
>   	REG_S s10, TASK_THREAD_S10_RA(a3)
>   	REG_S s11, TASK_THREAD_S11_RA(a3)
> +	/* save (and disable the user space access flag) */
> +	li    s0, SR_SUM
> +	csrrc s1, CSR_STATUS, s0

I don't think that clearing SR_SUM is needed here since you restore its 
value later on.

> +	REG_S s1,  TASK_THREAD_FLAGS_RA(a3)
> +
>   	/* Restore context from next->thread */
> +	REG_L s0,  TASK_THREAD_FLAGS_RA(a4)
> +	csrs  CSR_STATUS, s0
>   	REG_L ra,  TASK_THREAD_RA_RA(a4)
>   	REG_L sp,  TASK_THREAD_SP_RA(a4)
>   	REG_L s0,  TASK_THREAD_S0_RA(a4)
> 

Again, very nice finding, well done :)

Alex



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