Patch "x86/mcelog: Get rid of RCU remnants" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

Patch "x86/mcelog: Get rid of RCU remnants" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mcelog: Get rid of RCU remnants

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mcelog-get-rid-of-rcu-remnants.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7298f08ea8870d44d36c7d6cd07dd0303faef6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:47:54 +0100
Subject: x86/mcelog: Get rid of RCU remnants

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit 7298f08ea8870d44d36c7d6cd07dd0303faef6c2 upstream.

Jeremy reported a suspicious RCU usage warning in mcelog.

/dev/mcelog is called in process context now as part of the notifier
chain and doesn't need any of the fancy RCU and lockless accesses which
it did in atomic context.

Axe it all in favor of a simple mutex synchronization which cures the
problem reported.

Fixes: 5de97c9f6d85 ("x86/mce: Factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver")
Reported-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171101164754.xzzmskl4ngrqc5br@pd.tnic
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498969
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/dev-mcelog.c |  119 ++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/dev-mcelog.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/dev-mcelog.c
@@ -24,14 +24,6 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(mce_chrdev_read_mute
 static char mce_helper[128];
 static char *mce_helper_argv[2] = { mce_helper, NULL };
 
-#define mce_log_get_idx_check(p) \
-({ \
-	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && \
-			 !lockdep_is_held(&mce_chrdev_read_mutex), \
-			 "suspicious mce_log_get_idx_check() usage"); \
-	smp_load_acquire(&(p)); \
-})
-
 /*
  * Lockless MCE logging infrastructure.
  * This avoids deadlocks on printk locks without having to break locks. Also
@@ -53,43 +45,32 @@ static int dev_mce_log(struct notifier_b
 				void *data)
 {
 	struct mce *mce = (struct mce *)data;
-	unsigned int next, entry;
+	unsigned int entry;
+
+	mutex_lock(&mce_chrdev_read_mutex);
 
-	wmb();
-	for (;;) {
-		entry = mce_log_get_idx_check(mcelog.next);
-		for (;;) {
-
-			/*
-			 * When the buffer fills up discard new entries.
-			 * Assume that the earlier errors are the more
-			 * interesting ones:
-			 */
-			if (entry >= MCE_LOG_LEN) {
-				set_bit(MCE_OVERFLOW,
-					(unsigned long *)&mcelog.flags);
-				return NOTIFY_OK;
-			}
-			/* Old left over entry. Skip: */
-			if (mcelog.entry[entry].finished) {
-				entry++;
-				continue;
-			}
-			break;
-		}
-		smp_rmb();
-		next = entry + 1;
-		if (cmpxchg(&mcelog.next, entry, next) == entry)
-			break;
+	entry = mcelog.next;
+
+	/*
+	 * When the buffer fills up discard new entries. Assume that the
+	 * earlier errors are the more interesting ones:
+	 */
+	if (entry >= MCE_LOG_LEN) {
+		set_bit(MCE_OVERFLOW, (unsigned long *)&mcelog.flags);
+		goto unlock;
 	}
+
+	mcelog.next = entry + 1;
+
 	memcpy(mcelog.entry + entry, mce, sizeof(struct mce));
-	wmb();
 	mcelog.entry[entry].finished = 1;
-	wmb();
 
 	/* wake processes polling /dev/mcelog */
 	wake_up_interruptible(&mce_chrdev_wait);
 
+unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&mce_chrdev_read_mutex);
+
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
 
@@ -177,13 +158,6 @@ static int mce_chrdev_release(struct ino
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void collect_tscs(void *data)
-{
-	unsigned long *cpu_tsc = (unsigned long *)data;
-
-	cpu_tsc[smp_processor_id()] = rdtsc();
-}
-
 static int mce_apei_read_done;
 
 /* Collect MCE record of previous boot in persistent storage via APEI ERST. */
@@ -231,14 +205,9 @@ static ssize_t mce_chrdev_read(struct fi
 				size_t usize, loff_t *off)
 {
 	char __user *buf = ubuf;
-	unsigned long *cpu_tsc;
-	unsigned prev, next;
+	unsigned next;
 	int i, err;
 
-	cpu_tsc = kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(long), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!cpu_tsc)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	mutex_lock(&mce_chrdev_read_mutex);
 
 	if (!mce_apei_read_done) {
@@ -247,65 +216,29 @@ static ssize_t mce_chrdev_read(struct fi
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	next = mce_log_get_idx_check(mcelog.next);
-
 	/* Only supports full reads right now */
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (*off != 0 || usize < MCE_LOG_LEN*sizeof(struct mce))
 		goto out;
 
+	next = mcelog.next;
 	err = 0;
-	prev = 0;
-	do {
-		for (i = prev; i < next; i++) {
-			unsigned long start = jiffies;
-			struct mce *m = &mcelog.entry[i];
-
-			while (!m->finished) {
-				if (time_after_eq(jiffies, start + 2)) {
-					memset(m, 0, sizeof(*m));
-					goto timeout;
-				}
-				cpu_relax();
-			}
-			smp_rmb();
-			err |= copy_to_user(buf, m, sizeof(*m));
-			buf += sizeof(*m);
-timeout:
-			;
-		}
-
-		memset(mcelog.entry + prev, 0,
-		       (next - prev) * sizeof(struct mce));
-		prev = next;
-		next = cmpxchg(&mcelog.next, prev, 0);
-	} while (next != prev);
 
-	synchronize_sched();
-
-	/*
-	 * Collect entries that were still getting written before the
-	 * synchronize.
-	 */
-	on_each_cpu(collect_tscs, cpu_tsc, 1);
-
-	for (i = next; i < MCE_LOG_LEN; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < next; i++) {
 		struct mce *m = &mcelog.entry[i];
 
-		if (m->finished && m->tsc < cpu_tsc[m->cpu]) {
-			err |= copy_to_user(buf, m, sizeof(*m));
-			smp_rmb();
-			buf += sizeof(*m);
-			memset(m, 0, sizeof(*m));
-		}
+		err |= copy_to_user(buf, m, sizeof(*m));
+		buf += sizeof(*m);
 	}
 
+	memset(mcelog.entry, 0, next * sizeof(struct mce));
+	mcelog.next = 0;
+
 	if (err)
 		err = -EFAULT;
 
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&mce_chrdev_read_mutex);
-	kfree(cpu_tsc);
 
 	return err ? err : buf - ubuf;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.13/x86-mcelog-get-rid-of-rcu-remnants.patch