tree ce5ee2aafba8d0d052fe9d5c36dc5256ba52d76d
parent 734654ae7962be55c44ff3fb0bb0652b5149cc17
author Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> 1597906748 +0200
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1598430666 +0200

xen: don't reschedule in preemption off sections

For support of long running hypercalls xen_maybe_preempt_hcall() is
calling cond_resched() in case a hypercall marked as preemptible has
been interrupted.

Normally this is no problem, as only hypercalls done via some ioctl()s
are marked to be preemptible. In rare cases when during such a
preemptible hypercall an interrupt occurs and any softirq action is
started from irq_exit(), a further hypercall issued by the softirq
handler will be regarded to be preemptible, too. This might lead to
rescheduling in spite of the softirq handler potentially having set
preempt_disable(), leading to splats like:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/xen/preempt.c:37
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 20775, name: xl
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 1 PID: 20775 Comm: xl Tainted: G D W 5.4.46-1_prgmr_debug.el7.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack+0x8f/0xd0
___might_sleep.cold.76+0xb2/0x103
xen_maybe_preempt_hcall+0x48/0x70
xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x37/0x40
RIP: e030:xen_hypercall_xen_version+0xa/0x20
Code: ...
RSP: e02b:ffffc900400dcc30 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 000000000004000d RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: ffffffff8100122a
RDX: ffff88812e788000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffffff83ee3ad0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff8881824aa0b0
R13: 0000000865496000 R14: 0000000865496000 R15: ffff88815d040000
? xen_hypercall_xen_version+0xa/0x20
? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x9/0x10
? check_events+0x12/0x20
? xen_restore_fl_direct+0x1f/0x20
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x53/0x60
? debug_dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0x91/0xc0
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x53/0x60
? xen_swiotlb_sync_single_for_cpu+0x3d/0x140
? mlx4_en_process_rx_cq+0x6b6/0x1110 [mlx4_en]
? mlx4_en_poll_rx_cq+0x64/0x100 [mlx4_en]
? net_rx_action+0x151/0x4a0
? __do_softirq+0xed/0x55b
? irq_exit+0xea/0x100
? xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x2c/0x40
? xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x29/0x40
</IRQ>
? xen_hypercall_domctl+0xa/0x20
? xen_hypercall_domctl+0x8/0x20
? privcmd_ioctl+0x221/0x990 [xen_privcmd]
? do_vfs_ioctl+0xa5/0x6f0
? ksys_ioctl+0x60/0x90
? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x1a/0x20
? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
? do_syscall_64+0x62/0x250
? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Fix that by testing preempt_count() before calling cond_resched().

In kernel 5.8 this can't happen any more due to the entry code rework
(more than 100 patches, so not a candidate for backporting).

The issue was introduced in kernel 4.3, so this patch should go into
all stable kernels in [4.3 ... 5.7].

Reported-by: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
Fixes: 0fa2f5cb2b0ecd8 ("sched/preempt, xen: Use need_resched() instead of should_resched()")
Cc: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Chris Brannon <cmb@prgmr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>