This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-fpu-drop-fpregs-lock-before-inheriting-fpu-permissions.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 36b038791e1e2baea892e9276588815fd14894b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:44:00 +0000 Subject: x86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 36b038791e1e2baea892e9276588815fd14894b4 upstream. Mike Galbraith reported the following against an old fork of preempt-rt but the same issue also applies to the current preempt-rt tree. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: systemd preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 Preemption disabled at: fpu_clone CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G E (unreleased) Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl ? fpu_clone __might_resched rt_spin_lock fpu_clone ? copy_thread ? copy_process ? shmem_alloc_inode ? kmem_cache_alloc ? kernel_clone ? __do_sys_clone ? do_syscall_64 ? __x64_sys_rt_sigprocmask ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode ? do_syscall_64 ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode ? do_syscall_64 ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode ? do_syscall_64 ? exc_page_fault ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe </TASK> Mike says: The splat comes from fpu_inherit_perms() being called under fpregs_lock(), and us reaching the spin_lock_irq() therein due to fpu_state_size_dynamic() returning true despite static key __fpu_state_size_dynamic having never been enabled. Mike's assessment looks correct. fpregs_lock on a PREEMPT_RT kernel disables preemption so calling spin_lock_irq() in fpu_inherit_perms() is unsafe. This problem exists since commit 9e798e9aa14c ("x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features"). Even though the original bug report should not have enabled the paths at all, the bug still exists. fpregs_lock is necessary when editing the FPU registers or a task's FP state but it is not necessary for fpu_inherit_perms(). The only write of any FP state in fpu_inherit_perms() is for the new child which is not running yet and cannot context switch or be borrowed by a kernel thread yet. Hence, fpregs_lock is not protecting anything in the new child until clone() completes and can be dropped earlier. The siglock still needs to be acquired by fpu_inherit_perms() as the read of the parent's permissions has to be serialised. [ bp: Cleanup splat. ] Fixes: 9e798e9aa14c ("x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features") Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110124400.zgymc2lnwqjukgfh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c index 3b28c5b25e12..d00db56a8868 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c @@ -605,9 +605,9 @@ int fpu_clone(struct task_struct *dst, unsigned long clone_flags, bool minimal) if (test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD)) fpregs_restore_userregs(); save_fpregs_to_fpstate(dst_fpu); + fpregs_unlock(); if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)) fpu_inherit_perms(dst_fpu); - fpregs_unlock(); /* * Children never inherit PASID state. -- 2.38.1 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.0/x86-fpu-drop-fpregs-lock-before-inheriting-fpu-permissions.patch