[PATCH 4.19 29/46] x86/intel_rdt: Ensure a CPU remains online for the regions pseudo-locking sequence

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 28 2018 - 07:14:35 EST


4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 80b71c340f17705ec145911b9a193ea781811b16 upstream.

The user triggers the creation of a pseudo-locked region when writing
the requested schemata to the schemata resctrl file. The pseudo-locking
of a region is required to be done on a CPU that is associated with the
cache on which the pseudo-locked region will reside. In order to run the
locking code on a specific CPU, the needed CPU has to be selected and
ensured to remain online during the entire locking sequence.

At this time, the cpu_hotplug_lock is not taken during the pseudo-lock
region creation and it is thus possible for a CPU to be selected to run
the pseudo-locking code and then that CPU to go offline before the
thread is able to run on it.

Fix this by ensuring that the cpu_hotplug_lock is taken while the CPU on
which code has to run needs to be controlled. Since the cpu_hotplug_lock
is always taken before rdtgroup_mutex the lock order is maintained.

Fixes: e0bdfe8e36f3 ("x86/intel_rdt: Support creation/removal of pseudo-locked region")
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: gavin.hindman@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: jithu.joseph@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7b17432a80f95a1fa21a1698ba643014f58ad31.1544476425.git.reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@

#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

+#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/kernfs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -310,9 +311,11 @@ ssize_t rdtgroup_schemata_write(struct k
return -EINVAL;
buf[nbytes - 1] = '\0';

+ cpus_read_lock();
rdtgrp = rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn);
if (!rdtgrp) {
rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
return -ENOENT;
}
rdt_last_cmd_clear();
@@ -367,6 +370,7 @@ ssize_t rdtgroup_schemata_write(struct k

out:
rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
return ret ?: nbytes;
}