Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: make sure LAM is up-to-date during context switching

[Yosry Ahmed]

> I came up with a kernel patch that I *think* may reproduce the problem
> with enough iterations. Userspace only needs to enable LAM, so I think
> the selftest can be enough to trigger it.
> 
> However, there is no hardware with LAM at my disposal, and IIUC I cannot
> use QEMU without KVM to run a kernel with LAM. I was planning to do more
> testing before sending a non-RFC version, but apparently I cannot do
> any testing beyond building at this point (including reproducing) :/
> 
> Let me know how you want to proceed. I can send a non-RFC v1 based on
> the feedback I got on the RFC, but it will only be build tested.
> 
> For the record, here is the diff that I *think* may reproduce the bug:

Okay, I was actually able to run _some_ testing with the diff below on
_a kernel_, and I hit the BUG_ON pretty quickly. If I did things
correctly, this BUG_ON means that even though we have an outdated LAM in
our CR3, we will not update CR3 because the TLB is up-to-date.

I can work on a v1 now with the IPI approach that Andy suggested. A
small kink is that we may still hit the BUG_ON with that fix, but in
that case it should be fine to not write CR3 because once we re-enable
interrupts we will receive the IPI and fix it. IOW, the diff below will
still BUG with the proposed fix, but it should be okay.

One thing I am not clear about with the IPI approach, if we use
mm_cpumask() to limit the IPI scope, we need to make sure that we read
mm_lam_cr3_mask() *after* we update the cpumask in switch_mm_irqs_off(),
which makes me think we'll need a barrier (and Andy said we want to
avoid those in this path). But looking at the code I see:

		/*
		 * Start remote flushes and then read tlb_gen.
		 */
		if (next != &init_mm)
			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
		next_tlb_gen = atomic64_read(&next->context.tlb_gen);

This code doesn't have a barrier. How do we make sure the read actually
happens after the write?

If no barrier is needed there, then I think we can similarly just read
the LAM mask after cpumask_set_cpu().

> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> index 33b268747bb7b..c37a8c26a3c21 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> @@ -750,8 +750,25 @@ static long prctl_map_vdso(const struct vdso_image *image, unsigned long addr)
>  
>  #define LAM_U57_BITS 6
>  
> +static int kthread_fn(void *_mm)
> +{
> +	struct mm_struct *mm = _mm;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Wait for LAM to be enabled then schedule. Hopefully we will context
> +	 * switch directly into the task that enabled LAM due to CPU pinning.
> +	 */
> +	kthread_use_mm(mm);
> +	while (!test_bit(MM_CONTEXT_LOCK_LAM, &mm->context.flags));
> +	schedule();
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int prctl_enable_tagged_addr(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_bits)
>  {
> +	struct task_struct *kthread_task;
> +	int kthread_cpu;
> +
>  	if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LAM))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> @@ -782,10 +799,22 @@ static int prctl_enable_tagged_addr(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_bits)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Pin the task to the current CPU */
> +	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()));
> +
> +	/* Run a kthread on another CPU and wait for it to start */
> +	kthread_cpu = cpumask_next_wrap(smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask, 0, false),
> +	kthread_task = kthread_run_on_cpu(kthread_fn, mm, kthread_cpu, "lam_repro_kthread");
> +	while (!task_is_running(kthread_task));
> +
>  	write_cr3(__read_cr3() | mm->context.lam_cr3_mask);
>  	set_tlbstate_lam_mode(mm);
>  	set_bit(MM_CONTEXT_LOCK_LAM, &mm->context.flags);
>  
> +	/* Move the task to the kthread CPU */
> +	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(kthread_cpu));
> +
>  	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
>  
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 51f9f56941058..3afb53f1a1901 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *unused, struct mm_struct *next,
>  		next_tlb_gen = atomic64_read(&next->context.tlb_gen);
>  		if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.ctxs[prev_asid].tlb_gen) ==
>  				next_tlb_gen)
> -			return;
> +			BUG_ON(new_lam != tlbstate_lam_cr3_mask());
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * TLB contents went out of date while we were in lazy
>