Re: [PATCH v2] xen: avoid crash in disable_hotplug_cpu

From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xen: avoid crash in disable_hotplug_cpu
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:45:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7306d7f-e827-6556-e1bb-4b934a162e46__4606.36328575692$1536259438$gmane$org@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906063712.28639-1-olaf@aepfle.de>

On 09/06/2018 02:37 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> The command 'xl vcpu-set 0 0', issued in dom0, will crash dom0:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 7 PID: 65 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-1.ga9462db-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
> Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520UR/S5520UR, BIOS S5500.86B.01.00.0050.050620101605 05/06/2010
> RIP: e030:device_offline+0x9/0xb0
> Code: 77 24 00 e9 ce fe ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 68 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 29 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 ea fe ff ff 90 66 66 66 66 90 41 54 55 53 <f6> 87 d8 02 00 00 01 0f 85 88 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 20 09 60 81 31 f6
> RSP: e02b:ffffc90040f27e80 EFLAGS: 00010203
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: ffff8801f3800000 RSI: ffffc90040f27e70 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff820e47b3 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff822e6d30
> R13: dead000000000200 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffffffff8158b4e0
> FS:  00007ffa595158c0(0000) GS:ffff8801f39c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 00000001d9602000 CR4: 0000000000002660
> Call Trace:
>  handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xb5/0xc0
>  xenwatch_thread+0x80/0x140
>  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
>  kthread+0x112/0x130
>  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
>  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
>
> This happens because handle_vcpu_hotplug_event is called twice. In the
> first iteration cpu_present is still true, in the second iteration
> cpu_present is false which causes get_cpu_device to return NULL.
> In case of cpu#0, cpu_online is apparently always true.
>
> Fix this crash by checking if the cpu can be hotplugged, which is false
> for a cpu that was just removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c b/drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c
> index d4265c8ebb22..bf1e41ed9d41 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ static void enable_hotplug_cpu(int cpu)
>  
>  static void disable_hotplug_cpu(int cpu)
>  {
> +	if (!cpu_is_hotpluggable(cpu))

I think we should check both this and num_online_cpus() != 0.

Even though I don't believe cpu0_hotpluggable currently works, at some
point it might.

-boris

> +		return;
>  	if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
>  		lock_device_hotplug();
>  		device_offline(get_cpu_device(cpu));

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