[PATCH] x86/xen: Return from panic notifier

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 11:17:09 EST


Currently execution of panic() continues until Xen's panic notifier
(xen_panic_event()) is called at which point we make a hypercall that
never returns.

This means that any notifier that is supposed to be called later as
well as significant part of panic() code (such as pstore writes from
kmsg_dump()) is never executed.

There is no reason for xen_panic_event() to be this last point in
execution since panic()'s emergency_restart() will call into
xen_emergency_restart() from where we can perform our hypercall.

Reported-by: James Dingwall <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index 750f46ad018a..fd4f58cf51dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -269,16 +269,27 @@ void xen_reboot(int reason)
BUG();
}

+static int reboot_reason = SHUTDOWN_reboot;
void xen_emergency_restart(void)
{
- xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_reboot);
+ xen_reboot(reboot_reason);
}

static int
xen_panic_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, void *ptr)
{
- if (!kexec_crash_loaded())
- xen_reboot(SHUTDOWN_crash);
+ if (!kexec_crash_loaded()) {
+ reboot_reason = SHUTDOWN_crash;
+
+ /*
+ * If panic_timeout==0 then we are supposed to wait forever.
+ * However, to preserve original dom0 behavior we have to drop
+ * into hypervisor. (domU behavior is controlled by its
+ * config file)
+ */
+ if (panic_timeout == 0)
+ panic_timeout = -1;
+ }
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}

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