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panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe
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Attempting to get a crash dump out of a debug PREEMPT_RT kernel via an NMI
panic() doesn't work.  The cause of that lies in the PREEMPT_RT definition
of mutex_trylock():

	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES) && WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task()))
		return 0;

This prevents an nmi_panic() from executing the main body of
__crash_kexec() which does the actual kexec into the kdump kernel.  The
warning and return are explained by:

  6ce47fd ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
  [...]
  The reasons for this are:

      1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath

      2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task
	 which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work
	 because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context.

Furthermore, grabbing the lock isn't NMI safe, so do away with kexec_mutex
and replace it with an atomic variable.  This is somewhat overzealous as
*some* callsites could keep using a mutex (e.g.  the sysfs-facing ones
like crash_shrink_memory()), but this has the benefit of involving a
single unified lock and preventing any future NMI-related surprises.

Tested by triggering NMI panics via:

  $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
  $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unknown_nmi_panic
  $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic

  $ ipmitool power diag

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-3-vschneid@redhat.com
Fixes: 6ce47fd ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored and Andrew Morton committed Sep 12, 2022
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11 changes: 4 additions & 7 deletions kernel/kexec.c
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Expand Up @@ -93,13 +93,10 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,

/*
* Because we write directly to the reserved memory region when loading
* crash kernels we need a mutex here to prevent multiple crash kernels
* from attempting to load simultaneously, and to prevent a crash kernel
* from loading over the top of a in use crash kernel.
*
* KISS: always take the mutex.
* crash kernels we need a serialization here to prevent multiple crash
* kernels from attempting to load simultaneously.
*/
if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;

if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -165,7 +162,7 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,

kimage_free(image);
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
return ret;
}

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20 changes: 10 additions & 10 deletions kernel/kexec_core.c
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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
#include <crypto/hash.h>
#include "kexec_internal.h"

DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex);
atomic_t __kexec_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(0);

/* Per cpu memory for storing cpu states in case of system crash. */
note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -959,15 +959,15 @@ late_initcall(kexec_core_sysctl_init);
*/
void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load
/* Take the kexec_lock here to prevent sys_kexec_load
* running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel
* we are using after a panic on a different cpu.
*
* If the crash kernel was not located in a fixed area
* of memory the xchg(&kexec_crash_image) would be
* sufficient. But since I reuse the memory...
*/
if (mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) {
if (kexec_trylock()) {
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;

Expand All @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);
machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image);
}
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
}
}
STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(__crash_kexec);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1008,13 +1008,13 @@ ssize_t crash_get_memory_size(void)
{
ssize_t size = 0;

if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;

if (crashk_res.end != crashk_res.start)
size = resource_size(&crashk_res);

mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
return size;
}

Expand All @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
unsigned long old_size;
struct resource *ram_res;

if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;

if (kexec_crash_image) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
insert_resource(&iomem_resource, ram_res);

unlock:
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
return ret;
}

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{
int error = 0;

if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
if (!kexec_image) {
error = -EINVAL;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1212,6 +1212,6 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
#endif

Unlock:
mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
return error;
}
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions kernel/kexec_file.c
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Expand Up @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,

image = NULL;

if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;

dest_image = &kexec_image;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
if ((flags & KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH) && kexec_crash_image)
arch_kexec_protect_crashkres();

mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
kexec_unlock();
kimage_free(image);
return ret;
}
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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion kernel/kexec_internal.h
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,20 @@ void kimage_terminate(struct kimage *image);
int kimage_is_destination_range(struct kimage *image,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end);

extern struct mutex kexec_mutex;
/*
* Whatever is used to serialize accesses to the kexec_crash_image needs to be
* NMI safe, as __crash_kexec() can happen during nmi_panic(), so here we use a
* "simple" atomic variable that is acquired with a cmpxchg().
*/
extern atomic_t __kexec_lock;
static inline bool kexec_trylock(void)
{
return atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&__kexec_lock, 0, 1) == 0;
}
static inline void kexec_unlock(void)
{
atomic_set_release(&__kexec_lock, 0);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
#include <linux/purgatory.h>
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