This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
to the 4.0-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-vdso-fix-pvclock-races-with-task-migration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 80f7fdb1c7f0f9266421f823964fd1962681f6ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:44:23 +0200
Subject: x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 80f7fdb1c7f0f9266421f823964fd1962681f6ce upstream.
If we were migrated right after __getcpu, but before reading the
migration_count, we wouldn't notice that we read TSC of a different
VCPU, nor that KVM's bug made pvti invalid, as only migration_count
on source VCPU is increased.
Change vdso instead of updating migration_count on destination.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 0a4e6be9ca17 ("x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations"")
Message-Id: <1428000263-11892-1-git-send-email-rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -99,21 +99,25 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int
* __getcpu() calls (Gleb).
*/
- pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
+ /* Make sure migrate_count will change if we leave the VCPU. */
+ do {
+ pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
+ migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
- migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
+ cpu1 = cpu;
+ cpu = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
+ } while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1));
version = __pvclock_read_cycles(&pvti->pvti, &ret, &flags);
/*
* Test we're still on the cpu as well as the version.
- * We could have been migrated just after the first
- * vgetcpu but before fetching the version, so we
- * wouldn't notice a version change.
+ * - We must read TSC of pvti's VCPU.
+ * - KVM doesn't follow the versioning protocol, so data could
+ * change before version if we left the VCPU.
*/
- cpu1 = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
- } while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1 ||
- (pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
+ smp_rmb();
+ } while (unlikely((pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
pvti->pvti.version != version ||
pvti->migrate_count != migrate_count));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/x86-vdso-fix-pvclock-races-with-task-migration.patch
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