New subject: [PATCH] arm: fix using smp_processor_id() in preemptible context

3 Jun 2019

Hi Marc,
On 2019/6/3 18:17, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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On 27/05/2019 10:39, Yongliang Gao wrote:
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harden_branch_predictor() call smp_processor_id() in preemptible
context, this would cause a bug messages.
The bug messages is as follows:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: syz-executor0/17992
caller is harden_branch_predictor arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h:27 [inline]
caller is __do_user_fault+0x34/0x114 arch/arm/mm/fault.c:200
CPU: 1 PID: 17992 Comm: syz-executor0 Tainted: G O 4.4.176 #1
Hardware name: Hisilicon A9
[<c0114ae4>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010e6fc>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
[<c010e6fc>] (show_stack) from [<c0379514>] (dump_stack+0xc8/0x118)
[<c0379514>] (dump_stack) from [<c039b5a0>] (check_preemption_disabled+0xf4/0x138)
[<c039b5a0>] (check_preemption_disabled) from [<c011abe4>] (__do_user_fault+0x34/0x114)
[<c011abe4>] (__do_user_fault) from [<c053b0d0>] (do_page_fault+0x3b4/0x3d8)
[<c053b0d0>] (do_page_fault) from [<c01013dc>] (do_DataAbort+0x58/0xf8)
[<c01013dc>] (do_DataAbort) from [<c053a880>] (__dabt_usr+0x40/0x60)
Reported-by: Jingwen Qiu qiujingwen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Yongliang Gao gaoyongliang@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
index 66f6a3a..4a55cfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@
 static inline void harden_branch_predictor(void)
 {
   harden_branch_predictor_fn_t fn = per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn,

				  smp_processor_id());




				  get_cpu());

if (fn)
fn();
put_cpu();

}
 #else
 #define harden_branch_predictor() do { } while (0)
This doesn't look like the right fix. If we're in a preemptible context,
then we could invalidate the branch predictor on the wrong CPU.
Sorry, my bad, thanks a lot for the good catch.
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The right fix would be to move the call to a point where we haven't
enabled preemption yet.
I took a look at the code, and find out that the caller of
harden_branch_predictor(), __do_user_fault(), is called by do_page_fault()
and do_bad_area(), those two function's context are both running with
preemption enabled, so I didn't find a good place to move the call,
could you please give some suggestion for my next step?
Best Regards
Yongliang

    

Re: [PATCH] arm: fix using smp_processor_id() in preemptible context