Re: [V6 PATCH 1/6] panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:46:26AM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> If panic on NMI happens just after panic() on the same CPU, panic()
> is recursively called.  As the result, it stalls after failing to
> acquire panic_lock.
> 
> To avoid this problem, don't call panic() in NMI context if
> we've already entered panic().
> 
> V6:
> - Add a comment about panic_cpu
> - Replace the magic number -1 for panic_cpu with a macro
> 
> V4:
> - Improve comments in io_check_error() and panic()
> 
> V3:
> - Introduce nmi_panic() macro to reduce code duplication
> - In the case of panic on NMI, don't return from NMI handlers
>   if another CPU already panicked
> 
> V2:
> - Use atomic_cmpxchg() instead of current spin_trylock() to
>   exclude concurrent accesses to the panic routines
> - Don't introduce no-lock version of panic()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c  |   16 ++++++++++++----
>  include/linux/kernel.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/panic.c         |   15 ++++++++++++---
>  kernel/watchdog.c      |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Looks better.

Did some comments cleanup and nmi_panic() macro reformatting so that it
is more readable and ended up applying this:

---
From: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:46:26 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] panic, x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI

If panic on NMI happens just after panic() on the same CPU, panic() is
recursively called. Kernel stalls, as a result, after failing to acquire
panic_lock.

To avoid this problem, don't call panic() in NMI context if we've
already entered panic().

For that, introduce nmi_panic() macro to reduce code duplication. In
the case of panic on NMI, don't return from NMI handlers if another CPU
already panicked.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Gobinda Charan Maji <gobinda.cemk07@gmail.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014626.25437.13302.stgit@softrs
[ Cleanup comments, fixup formatting. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c  | 16 ++++++++++++----
 include/linux/kernel.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/panic.c         | 16 +++++++++++++---
 kernel/watchdog.c      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 697f90db0e37..292a24bd0553 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ pci_serr_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 #endif
 
 	if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
-		panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+		nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
 
 	pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
 
@@ -255,8 +255,16 @@ io_check_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		 reason, smp_processor_id());
 	show_regs(regs);
 
-	if (panic_on_io_nmi)
-		panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+	if (panic_on_io_nmi) {
+		nmi_panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+
+		/*
+		 * If end up here, it means we have received an NMI while
+		 * processing panic(). Simply return without delaying and
+		 * re-enabling NMI.
+		 */
+		return;
+	}
 
 	/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
 	reason = (reason & NMI_REASON_CLEAR_MASK) | NMI_REASON_CLEAR_IOCHK;
@@ -297,7 +305,7 @@ unknown_nmi_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	pr_emerg("Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?\n");
 	if (unknown_nmi_panic || panic_on_unrecovered_nmi)
-		panic("NMI: Not continuing");
+		nmi_panic("NMI: Not continuing");
 
 	pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 350dfb08aee3..750cc5c7c999 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -446,6 +446,26 @@ extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
 extern bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
 
 /*
+ * panic_cpu is used for synchronizing panic() and crash_kexec() execution. It
+ * holds a CPU number which is executing panic() currently. A value of
+ * PANIC_CPU_INVALID means no CPU has entered panic() or crash_kexec().
+ */
+extern atomic_t panic_cpu;
+#define PANIC_CPU_INVALID	-1
+
+/*
+ * A variant of panic() called from NMI context. We return if we've already
+ * panicked on this CPU.
+ */
+#define nmi_panic(fmt, ...)						\
+do {									\
+	int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();				\
+									\
+	if (atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, cpu) != cpu)	\
+		panic(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);				\
+} while (0)
+
+/*
  * Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
  * CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
  */
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 4b150bc0c6c1..3344524cf6ff 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
 		cpu_relax();
 }
 
+atomic_t panic_cpu = ATOMIC_INIT(PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+
 /**
  *	panic - halt the system
  *	@fmt: The text string to print
@@ -71,17 +73,17 @@ void __weak panic_smp_self_stop(void)
  */
 void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
-	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(panic_lock);
 	static char buf[1024];
 	va_list args;
 	long i, i_next = 0;
 	int state = 0;
+	int old_cpu, this_cpu;
 
 	/*
 	 * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
 	 * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
 	 * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
-	 * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+	 * after setting panic_cpu) from invoking panic() again.
 	 */
 	local_irq_disable();
 
@@ -94,8 +96,16 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	 * multiple parallel invocations of panic, all other CPUs either
 	 * stop themself or will wait until they are stopped by the 1st CPU
 	 * with smp_send_stop().
+	 *
+	 * `old_cpu == PANIC_CPU_INVALID' means this is the 1st CPU which
+	 * comes here, so go ahead.
+	 * `old_cpu == this_cpu' means we came from nmi_panic() which sets
+	 * panic_cpu to this CPU.  In this case, this is also the 1st CPU.
 	 */
-	if (!spin_trylock(&panic_lock))
+	this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+	old_cpu  = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu);
+
+	if (old_cpu != PANIC_CPU_INVALID && old_cpu != this_cpu)
 		panic_smp_self_stop();
 
 	console_verbose();
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 18f34cf75f74..b9be18fae154 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event,
 			trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace();
 
 		if (hardlockup_panic)
-			panic("Hard LOCKUP");
+			nmi_panic("Hard LOCKUP");
 
 		__this_cpu_write(hard_watchdog_warn, true);
 		return;
-- 
2.3.5

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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