[PATCH v2 5/5] x86/mm: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm

[Andy Lutomirski]

Potential races between switch_mm and TLB-flush or LDT-flush IPIs
could be very messy.  AFAICT the code is currently okay, whether by
accident or by careful design, but enabling PCID will make it
considerably more complicated and will no longer be obviously safe.

Fix it with a bug hammer: run switch_mm with IRQs off.

To avoid a performance hit in the scheduler, we take advantage of
our knowledge that the scheduler already has IRQs disabled when it
calls switch_mm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h |  3 +++
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                  | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index bb911dd7cd01..396348196aa7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ static inline void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
 extern void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 		      struct task_struct *tsk);
 
+extern void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
+			       struct task_struct *tsk);
+#define switch_mm_irqs_off switch_mm_irqs_off
 
 #define activate_mm(prev, next)			\
 do {						\
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 07558fabc222..c93481569e3c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);
 void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 	       struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	switch_mm_irqs_off(prev, next, tsk);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
+			struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
 	unsigned cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	if (likely(prev != next)) {
-- 
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