lkdtm/bugs: add test for panic() with stuck secondary CPUs
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:16:34 +0000 (17:16 +0100)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:39:08 +0000 (16:39 -0700)
commiteac80dd4bc22bb754a5476fe5064e662c22f51ba
treea79450b2324ec67ffe5fd2112f488776607ec9e0
parent6cd59324c69a8d30956c70a870dcd0cb14977914
lkdtm/bugs: add test for panic() with stuck secondary CPUs

Upon a panic() the kernel will use either smp_send_stop() or
crash_smp_send_stop() to attempt to stop secondary CPUs via an IPI,
which may or may not be an NMI. Generally it's preferable that this is an
NMI so that CPUs can be stopped in as many situations as possible, but
it's not always possible to provide an NMI, and there are cases where
CPUs may be unable to handle the NMI regardless.

This patch adds a test for panic() where all other CPUs are stuck with
interrupts disabled, which can be used to check whether the kernel
gracefully handles CPUs failing to respond to a stop, and whether NMIs
actually work to stop CPUs.

For example, on arm64 *without* an NMI, this results in:

| # echo PANIC_STOP_IRQOFF > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
| lkdtm: Performing direct entry PANIC_STOP_IRQOFF
| Kernel panic - not syncing: panic stop irqoff test
| CPU: 2 PID: 24 Comm: migration/2 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00077-ge6c782389895-dirty #4
| Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
| Stopper: multi_cpu_stop+0x0/0x1a0 <- stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x158/0x1a4
| Call trace:
|  dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec
|  show_stack+0x18/0x24
|  dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0xc0
|  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
|  panic+0x358/0x3e8
|  lkdtm_PANIC+0x0/0x18
|  multi_cpu_stop+0x9c/0x1a0
|  cpu_stopper_thread+0x84/0x118
|  smpboot_thread_fn+0x224/0x248
|  kthread+0x114/0x118
|  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
| SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-3
| Kernel Offset: 0x401cf3490000 from 0xffff80008000000c0
| PHYS_OFFSET: 0x40000000
| CPU features: 0x00000000,68c167a1,cce6773f
| Memory Limit: none
| ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: panic stop irqoff test ]---

Note the "failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-3" message.

On arm64 *with* an NMI, this results in:

| # echo PANIC_STOP_IRQOFF > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
| lkdtm: Performing direct entry PANIC_STOP_IRQOFF
| Kernel panic - not syncing: panic stop irqoff test
| CPU: 1 PID: 19 Comm: migration/1 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00077-ge6c782389895-dirty #4
| Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
| Stopper: multi_cpu_stop+0x0/0x1a0 <- stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x158/0x1a4
| Call trace:
|  dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec
|  show_stack+0x18/0x24
|  dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0xc0
|  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
|  panic+0x358/0x3e8
|  lkdtm_PANIC+0x0/0x18
|  multi_cpu_stop+0x9c/0x1a0
|  cpu_stopper_thread+0x84/0x118
|  smpboot_thread_fn+0x224/0x248
|  kthread+0x114/0x118
|  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
| Kernel Offset: 0x55a9c0bc0000 from 0xffff800080000000
| PHYS_OFFSET: 0x40000000
| CPU features: 0x00000000,68c167a1,fce6773f
| Memory Limit: none
| ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: panic stop irqoff test ]---

Note the absence of a "failed to stop secondary CPUs" message, since we
don't log anything when secondary CPUs are successfully stopped.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230921161634.4063233-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt