mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB invalidate
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 7 Aug 2020 06:17:16 +0000 (23:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 Aug 2020 18:33:21 +0000 (11:33 -0700)
commit38cf307c1f2011d413750c5acb725456f47d9172
treec6f5931300d455adb1f2e87e6a6651d562d1c4c4
parent4a93025cbe4a0b19d1a25a2d763a3d2018bad0d9
mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB invalidate

For SMP systems using IPI based TLB invalidation, looking at
current->active_mm is entirely reasonable.  This then presents the
following race condition:

  CPU0 CPU1

  flush_tlb_mm(mm) use_mm(mm)
    <send-IPI>
  tsk->active_mm = mm;
  <IPI>
    if (tsk->active_mm == mm)
      // flush TLBs
  </IPI>
  switch_mm(old_mm,mm,tsk);

Where it is possible the IPI flushed the TLBs for @old_mm, not @mm,
because the IPI lands before we actually switched.

Avoid this by disabling IRQs across changing ->active_mm and
switch_mm().

Of the (SMP) architectures that have IPI based TLB invalidate:

  Alpha    - checks active_mm
  ARC      - ASID specific
  IA64     - checks active_mm
  MIPS     - ASID specific flush
  OpenRISC - shoots down world
  PARISC   - shoots down world
  SH       - ASID specific
  SPARC    - ASID specific
  x86      - N/A
  xtensa   - checks active_mm

So at the very least Alpha, IA64 and Xtensa are suspect.

On top of this, for scheduler consistency we need at least preemption
disabled across changing tsk->mm and doing switch_mm(), which is
currently provided by task_lock(), but that's not sufficient for
PREEMPT_RT.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721154106.GE10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kthread.c