----- On Dec 2, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote:
> membarrier() does not explicitly sync_core() remote CPUs; instead, it
> relies on the assumption that an IPI will result in a core sync. On
> x86, I think this may be true in practice, but it's not architecturally
> reliable. In particular, the SDM and APM do not appear to guarantee
> that interrupt delivery is serializing. While IRET does serialize, IPI
> return can schedule, thereby switching to another task in the same mm
> that was sleeping in a syscall. The new task could then SYSRET back to
> usermode without ever executing IRET.
>
> Make this more robust by explicitly calling sync_core_before_usermode()
> on remote cores. (This also helps people who search the kernel tree for
> instances of sync_core() and sync_core_before_usermode() -- one might be
> surprised that the core membarrier code doesn't currently show up in a
> such a search.)
>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> index 6251d3d12abe..01538b31f27e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,23 @@ static void ipi_mb(void *info)
> smp_mb(); /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> }
>
> +static void ipi_sync_core(void *info)
> +{
> + /*
> + * The smp_mb() in membarrier after all the IPIs is supposed to
> + * ensure that memory on remote CPUs that occur before the IPI
> + * become visible to membarrier()'s caller -- see scenario B in
> + * the big comment at the top of this file.
> + *
> + * A sync_core() would provide this guarantee, but
> + * sync_core_before_usermode() might end up being deferred until
> + * after membarrier()'s smp_mb().
> + */
> + smp_mb(); /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> +
> + sync_core_before_usermode();
> +}
> +
> static void ipi_rseq(void *info)
> {
> /*
> @@ -301,6 +318,7 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags, int
> cpu_id)
> if (!(atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state) &
> MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_READY))
> return -EPERM;
> + ipi_func = ipi_sync_core;
> } else if (flags == MEMBARRIER_FLAG_RSEQ) {
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RSEQ))
> return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.28.0
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
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