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Revision a2b7861bb33b2538420bb5d8554153484d3f961f authored by Boqun Feng on 03 October 2017, 13:36:51 UTC, committed by Radim Krčmář on 04 October 2017, 16:28:53 UTC
Currently, in PREEMPT_COUNT=n kernel, kvm_async_pf_task_wait() could call
schedule() to reschedule in some cases.  This could result in
accidentally ending the current RCU read-side critical section early,
causing random memory corruption in the guest, or otherwise preempting
the currently running task inside between preempt_disable and
preempt_enable.

The difficulty to handle this well is because we don't know whether an
async PF delivered in a preemptible section or RCU read-side critical section
for PREEMPT_COUNT=n, since preempt_disable()/enable() and rcu_read_lock/unlock()
are both no-ops in that case.

To cure this, we treat any async PF interrupting a kernel context as one
that cannot be preempted, preventing kvm_async_pf_task_wait() from choosing
the schedule() path in that case.

To do so, a second parameter for kvm_async_pf_task_wait() is introduced,
so that we know whether it's called from a context interrupting the
kernel, and the parameter is set properly in all the callsites.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: a2b7861bb33b2538420bb5d8554153484d3f961f authored by Boqun Feng on 03 October 2017, 13:36:51 UTC
kvm/x86: Avoid async PF preempting the kernel incorrectly
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