Re: [PATCH] ftrace/x86: fix x86-32 triple fault with graph tracing and suspend-to-ram

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Dear Josh,


On 03/27/17 17:01, Paul Menzel wrote:

On 03/27/17 16:54, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
On x86-32, with CONFIG_FIRMWARE and multiple CPUs, if you enable
function graph tracing and then suspend to RAM, it will triple fault and
reboot when it resumes.

The first fault happens when booting a secondary CPU:

startup_32_smp()
  load_ucode_ap()
    prepare_ftrace_return()
      ftrace_graph_is_dead()
        (accesses 'kill_ftrace_graph')

The early head_32.S code calls into load_ucode_ap(), which has an an
ftrace hook, so it calls prepare_ftrace_return(), which calls
ftrace_graph_is_dead(), which tries to access the global
'kill_ftrace_graph' variable with a virtual address, causing a fault
because the CPU is still in real mode.

The fix is to add a check in prepare_ftrace_return() to make sure it's
running in protected mode before continuing.  The check makes sure the
stack pointer is a virtual kernel address.  It's a bit of a hack, but
it's not very intrusive and it works well enough.

For reference, here are a few other ways this could have potentially
been fixed:

- Move startup_32_smp()'s call to load_ucode_ap() down to *after* paging
  is enabled.  (No idea what that would break.)

- Track down load_ucode_ap()'s entire callee tree and mark all the
  functions 'notrace'.  (Probably not realistic.)

- Pause graph tracing in ftrace_suspend_notifier_call() or bringup_cpu()
  or __cpu_up(), and ensure that the pause facility can be queried from
  real mode.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Thank you for debugging this. It’s great that you were able to reproduce
this in QEMU. Hopefully, that’ll make for an easy test case. ;-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 8f3d9cf..1c5c4e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -983,6 +983,17 @@ void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long
self_addr, unsigned long *parent,
     unsigned long return_hooker = (unsigned long)
                 &return_to_handler;

+    /*
+     * When resuming from suspend-to-ram, this function can be
indirectly
+     * called from early CPU startup code while the CPU is in real mode,
+     * which would fail miserably.  Make sure the stack pointer is a
+     * virtual address.
+     *
+     * This check isn't as accurate as virt_addr_valid(), but it
should be
+     * good enough for this purpose, and it's fast.
+     */
+    if (unlikely((long)__builtin_frame_address(0) >= 0)) return;

The coding style requires the `return;` to be on a separate line.

+
     if (unlikely(ftrace_graph_is_dead()))
         return;

I’ll test your change this evening.

With both patches applied `./analyze_suspend.py -config suspend-callgraph.cfg -filter i915` succeeds on a Lenovo X60t, so suspend and resume work perfectly, when tracing is enabled.

Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It’d be awesome, if you could tag both patches for inclusion into the stable Linux Kernel series.


Kind regards,

Paul
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