ACK: [Xenial PATCH 3/3] UBUNTU: SAUCE: s390/mm: fix race on mm->context.flush_mm

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Tue Sep 12 11:59:29 UTC 2017


On 12/09/17 10:45, Stefan Bader wrote:
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1708399
> 
> The order in __tlb_flush_mm_lazy is to flush TLB first and then clear
> the mm->context.flush_mm bit. This can lead to missed flushes as the
> bit can be set anytime, the order needs to be the other way aronud.
> 
> But this leads to a different race, __tlb_flush_mm_lazy may be called
> on two CPUs concurrently. If mm->context.flush_mm is cleared first then
> another CPU can bypass __tlb_flush_mm_lazy although the first CPU has
> not done the flush yet. In a virtualized environment the time until the
> flush is finally completed can be arbitrarily long.
> 
> Add a spinlock to serialize __tlb_flush_mm_lazy and use the function
> in finish_arch_post_lock_switch as well.
> 
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
> (backported from 60f07c8ec5fae06c23e9fd7bab67dabce92b3414 linux-next)
> [context adaption]
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h         | 2 ++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 4 ++--
>  arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h    | 4 +++-
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h
> index 081b2ad..d8675e6 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu.h
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
>  #include <linux/errno.h>
>  
>  typedef struct {
> +	spinlock_t lock;
>  	cpumask_t cpu_attach_mask;
>  	atomic_t attach_count;
>  	unsigned int flush_mm;
> @@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ typedef struct {
>  } mm_context_t;
>  
>  #define INIT_MM_CONTEXT(name)						      \
> +	.context.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.context.lock),	      \
>  	.context.list_lock    = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.context.list_lock), \
>  	.context.pgtable_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(name.context.pgtable_list),    \
>  	.context.gmap_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(name.context.gmap_list),
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> index 22877c9..27e47ee 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  static inline int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  				   struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
> +	spin_lock_init(&mm->context.lock);
>  	spin_lock_init(&mm->context.list_lock);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->context.pgtable_list);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->context.gmap_list);
> @@ -114,8 +115,7 @@ static inline void finish_arch_post_lock_switch(void)
>  			cpu_relax();
>  
>  		cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm));
> -		if (mm->context.flush_mm)
> -			__tlb_flush_mm(mm);
> +		__tlb_flush_mm_lazy(mm);
>  		preempt_enable();
>  	}
>  	set_fs(current->thread.mm_segment);
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> index d54cc83..f3b3618 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> @@ -104,10 +104,12 @@ static inline void __tlb_flush_mm(struct mm_struct * mm)
>  
>  static inline void __tlb_flush_mm_lazy(struct mm_struct * mm)
>  {
> +	spin_lock(&mm->context.lock);
>  	if (mm->context.flush_mm) {
> -		__tlb_flush_mm(mm);
>  		mm->context.flush_mm = 0;
> +		__tlb_flush_mm(mm);
>  	}
> +	spin_unlock(&mm->context.lock);
>  }
>  
>  /*
>
Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>





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