[HIRSUTE][linux-riscv][PATCH v2] UBUNTU: SAUCE: RISC-V: prevent sbi_send_cpumask_ipi race with ftrace

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Tue Aug 17 06:41:07 UTC 2021


On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:23:27AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> 
> ftrace will patch instructions in sbi_send_cpumask_ipi, which is going to
> be used by flush_icache_range, leading to potential races and crashes like
> this:
> 
> [    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 38893 entries in 152 pages
> [    0.000000] Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
> [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.11.0-1014-generic #14-Ubuntu
> [    0.000000] epc: ffffffe00000920e ra : ffffffe000009384 sp : ffffffe001803d30
> [    0.000000]  gp : ffffffe001a14240 tp : ffffffe00180f440 t0 : ffffffe07fe38000
> [    0.000000]  t1 : ffffffe0019cd338 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffe001803d70
> [    0.000000]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ffffffe0000095aa a1 : 0000000000000001
> [    0.000000]  a2 : 0000000000000002 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.000000]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000004 a7 : 0000000052464e43
> [    0.000000]  s2 : 0000000000000002 s3 : 0000000000000001 s4 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.000000]  s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.000000]  s8 : ffffffe001a170c0 s9 : 0000000000000001 s10: 0000000000000001
> [    0.000000]  s11: 00000000fffcc5d0 t3 : 0000000000000068 t4 : 000000000000000b
> [    0.000000]  t5 : ffffffe0019cd3e0 t6 : ffffffe001803cd8
> [    0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 000000000513f187 cause: 0000000000000002
> [    0.000000] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]---
> [    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> [    0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---
> 
> Where ffffffe00000920e lies in the middle of sbi_send_cpumask_ipi.
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1934548
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
> ---
> 
>  Patch can be applied to:
>  - Unstable
>  - Impish linux
>  - Impish linux-riscv
>  - Hirsute linux
>  - Hirsute linux-riscv
>  - Focal linux-riscv-5.11
> 
>  Whichever are suitable for respins.
> 
>  Changes since v1:
>  - Added BugLink, Tested-By, SOB

Is there a particular reason to apply this to linux-riscv, instead of
just applying it to linux (linux-riscv would get it with the rebase)?

Thanks,
-Andrea



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