linux-stable/arch
Boqun Feng a2b7861bb3 kvm/x86: Avoid async PF preempting the kernel incorrectly
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>
2017-10-04 18:28:53 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
arc arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
arm LED fixes for 4.14-rc3 2017-09-29 19:33:32 -07:00
arm64 arm64: fault: Route pte translation faults via do_translation_fault 2017-09-29 16:47:40 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
c6x arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
cris MTD changes for 4.14: 2017-09-09 14:48:21 -07:00
frv arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
h8300 arch: define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for all fixed big endian archs 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 17:37:26 -07:00
m32r arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2017-09-10 21:07:39 -07:00
metag arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
microblaze arch: change default endian for microblaze 2017-09-25 15:31:26 +02:00
mips pci-v4.14-fixes-2 2017-09-22 13:09:11 -10:00
mn10300 arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-15 12:47:21 -07:00
openrisc OpenRISC patches for 4.14 2017-09-13 11:52:18 -07:00
parisc parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations 2017-09-22 22:26:43 +02:00
powerpc KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix server always zero from kvmppc_xive_get_xive() 2017-10-03 17:58:16 +02:00
s390 s390/topology: enable / disable topology dynamically 2017-09-20 13:47:55 +02:00
score
sh arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
tile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2017-09-22 13:02:54 -10:00
um um/time: Fixup namespace collision 2017-09-29 10:07:44 +02:00
unicore32
x86 kvm/x86: Avoid async PF preempting the kernel incorrectly 2017-10-04 18:28:53 +02:00
xtensa arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions 2017-09-22 12:59:52 -10:00
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Kconfig - For the randstruct plugin, enable automatic randomization of structures 2017-09-07 20:30:19 -07:00