From: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com>

commit 52d6b926aabc47643cd910c85edb262b7f44c168 upstream.

There is a race when taking a CPU offline. Current code looks like this:

native_cpu_disable()
{
        ...
        apic_soft_disable();
        /*
         * Any existing set bits for pending interrupt to
         * this CPU are preserved and will be sent via IPI
         * to another CPU by fixup_irqs().
         */
        cpu_disable_common();
        {
                ....
                /*
                 * Race window happens here. Once local APIC has been
                 * disabled any new interrupts from the device to
                 * the old CPU are lost
                 */
                fixup_irqs(); // Too late to capture anything in IRR.
                ...
        }
}

The fix is to disable the APIC *after* cpu_disable_common().

Testing was done with a USB NIC that provided a source of frequent
interrupts. A script migrated interrupts to a specific CPU and
then took that CPU offline.

Fixes: 60dcaad5736f ("x86/hotplug: Silence APIC and NMI when CPU is dead")
Reported-by: Evan Green <evgr...@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.ny...@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Evan Green <evgr...@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgr...@chromium.org>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/875zdarr4h....@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/1598501530-45821-1-git-send-email-ashok....@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1604,14 +1604,28 @@ int native_cpu_disable(void)
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
-       /*
-        * Disable the local APIC. Otherwise IPI broadcasts will reach
-        * it. It still responds normally to INIT, NMI, SMI, and SIPI
-        * messages.
-        */
-       apic_soft_disable();
        cpu_disable_common();
 
+        /*
+         * Disable the local APIC. Otherwise IPI broadcasts will reach
+         * it. It still responds normally to INIT, NMI, SMI, and SIPI
+         * messages.
+         *
+         * Disabling the APIC must happen after cpu_disable_common()
+         * which invokes fixup_irqs().
+         *
+         * Disabling the APIC preserves already set bits in IRR, but
+         * an interrupt arriving after disabling the local APIC does not
+         * set the corresponding IRR bit.
+         *
+         * fixup_irqs() scans IRR for set bits so it can raise a not
+         * yet handled interrupt on the new destination CPU via an IPI
+         * but obviously it can't do so for IRR bits which are not set.
+         * IOW, interrupts arriving after disabling the local APIC will
+         * be lost.
+         */
+       apic_soft_disable();
+
        return 0;
 }
 


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