Re: [PATCH v4] x86/power/64: Fix kernel text mapping corruption during image restoration

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 30 2016 - 11:33:07 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Logan Gunthorpe reports that hibernation stopped working reliably for
>> him after commit ab76f7b4ab23 (x86/mm: Set NX on gap between __ex_table
>> and rodata).
>
> ...
>
>> +static int relocate_restore_code(void)
>> +{
>> + pgd_t *pgd;
>> + pud_t *pud;
>> +
>> + relocated_restore_code = get_safe_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
>> + if (!relocated_restore_code)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> + memcpy((void *)relocated_restore_code, &core_restore_code, PAGE_SIZE);
>> +
>> + /* Make the page containing the relocated code executable */
>> + pgd = (pgd_t *)__va(read_cr3()) + pgd_index(relocated_restore_code);
>> + pud = pud_offset(pgd, relocated_restore_code);
>> + if (pud_large(*pud)) {
>> + set_pud(pud, __pud(pud_val(*pud) & ~_PAGE_NX));
>> + } else {
>> + pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, relocated_restore_code);
>> +
>> + if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
>> + set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(pmd_val(*pmd) & ~_PAGE_NX));
>> + } else {
>> + pte_t *pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, relocated_restore_code);
>> +
>> + set_pte(pte, __pte(pte_val(*pte) & ~_PAGE_NX));
>> + }
>> + }
>> + flush_tlb_all();
>
> I know you want to flush TLBs but this causes the splat below on the
> resume kernel.
>
> Most likely because:
>
> resume_target_kernel() does local_irq_disable() and then
>
> swsusp_arch_resume() -> relocate_restore_code() -> flush_tlb_all()
>
> and smp_call_function_many() doesn't like it when IRQs are disabled.

Right.

Can I invoke __flush_tlb_all() from here to flush the TLB on the local
CPU? That should be sufficient IMO.

Thanks,
Rafael