[tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Get rid of VM_BUG_ON in switch_tlb_irqs_off()

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Commit-ID:  a376e7f99be7c1e15b2d986e49b2bec834904381
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a376e7f99be7c1e15b2d986e49b2bec834904381
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:06:57 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:50:52 +0200

x86/mm: Get rid of VM_BUG_ON in switch_tlb_irqs_off()

If we hit the VM_BUG_ON(), we're detecting a genuinely bad situation,
but we're very unlikely to get a useful call trace.

Make it a warning instead.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3b4e06bbb382ca54a93218407c93925ff5871546.1504847163.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 37689a7..1ab3821 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -121,8 +121,28 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 	 * hypothetical buggy code that directly switches to swapper_pg_dir
 	 * without going through leave_mm() / switch_mm_irqs_off() or that
 	 * does something like write_cr3(read_cr3_pa()).
+	 *
+	 * Only do this check if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y because __read_cr3()
+	 * isn't free.
 	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON(__read_cr3() != (__sme_pa(real_prev->pgd) | prev_asid));
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(__read_cr3() !=
+			 (__sme_pa(real_prev->pgd) | prev_asid))) {
+		/*
+		 * If we were to BUG here, we'd be very likely to kill
+		 * the system so hard that we don't see the call trace.
+		 * Try to recover instead by ignoring the error and doing
+		 * a global flush to minimize the chance of corruption.
+		 *
+		 * (This is far from being a fully correct recovery.
+		 *  Architecturally, the CPU could prefetch something
+		 *  back into an incorrect ASID slot and leave it there
+		 *  to cause trouble down the road.  It's better than
+		 *  nothing, though.)
+		 */
+		__flush_tlb_all();
+	}
+#endif
 
 	if (real_prev == next) {
 		VM_BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.ctxs[prev_asid].ctx_id) !=
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