Per-vcpu flags are updated using a non-atomic RMW operation.
Which means it is possible to get preempted between the read and
write operations.
Another interesting thing to note is that preemption also updates
flags, as we have some flag manipulation in both the load and put
operations.
It is thus possible to lose information communicated by either
load or put, as the preempted flag update will overwrite the flags
when the thread is resumed. This is specially critical if either
load or put has stored information which depends on the physical
CPU the vcpu runs on.
This results in really elusive bugs, and kudos must be given to
Mostafa for the long hours of debugging, and finally spotting
the problem.
Fixes: e87abb73e594 ("KVM: arm64: Add helpers to manipulate vcpu flags among a set")
Reported-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index bcd774d74f34..d716cfd806e8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -579,6 +579,19 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
v->arch.flagset & (m); \
})
+/*
+ * Note that the set/clear accessors must be preempt-safe in order to
+ * avoid nesting them with load/put which also manipulate flags...
+ */
+#ifdef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
+/* the nVHE hypervisor is always non-preemptible */
+#define __vcpu_flags_preempt_disable()
+#define __vcpu_flags_preempt_enable()
+#else
+#define __vcpu_flags_preempt_disable() preempt_disable()
+#define __vcpu_flags_preempt_enable() preempt_enable()
+#endif
+
#define __vcpu_set_flag(v, flagset, f, m) \
do { \
typeof(v->arch.flagset) *fset; \
@@ -586,9 +599,11 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
__build_check_flag(v, flagset, f, m); \
\
fset = &v->arch.flagset; \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_disable(); \
if (HWEIGHT(m) > 1) \
*fset &= ~(m); \
*fset |= (f); \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_enable(); \
} while (0)
#define __vcpu_clear_flag(v, flagset, f, m) \
@@ -598,7 +613,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
__build_check_flag(v, flagset, f, m); \
\
fset = &v->arch.flagset; \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_disable(); \
*fset &= ~(m); \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_enable(); \
} while (0)
#define vcpu_get_flag(v, ...) __vcpu_get_flag((v), __VA_ARGS__)
--
2.34.1
