Re: linuxnext-2019119 edac warns (was Re: edac KASAN warning in experimental arm64 allmodconfig boot)

From: John Garry
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 10:24:01 EST


On 21/11/2019 14:23, Robert Richter wrote:
Hi John,

thanks for testing and reporting this. See inline.

On 21.11.19 12:34:22, John Garry wrote:
On 14/10/2019 16:18, John Garry wrote:
JFYI, I see an issue on linuxnext-2019119, as follows:

21.645388] io scheduler kyber registered
[ 21.734011] input: Power Button as
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
[ 21.743295] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 21.809644] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR
[0x94110034/64/0/3/0]
[ 21.821974] EDAC MC0: Giving out device to module ghes_edac.c controller
ghes_edac: DEV ghes (INTERRUPT)
[ 21.831763] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 21.836374] refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free.
[ 21.841620] WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 1 at lib/refcount.c:156
refcount_inc_checked+0x44/0x50
[ 21.849697] Modules linked in:
[ 21.852745] CPU: 36 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
5.4.0-rc8-next-20191119-00003-g141a9fef5092-dirty #650
[ 21.862645] Hardware name: Huawei D06 /D06, BIOS Hisilicon D06 UEFI RC0 -
V1.16.01 03/15/2019
[ 21.871157] pstate: 60c00009 (nZCv daif +PAN +UAO)
[ 21.875936] pc : refcount_inc_checked+0x44/0x50
[ 21.880455] lr : refcount_inc_checked+0x44/0x50

This is a warning from the refcount framework. It warns if we
increment from zero. This is reasonable as typically a kernel object
is created with a refcount of 1 and thrown away once the refcount is
zero. Afterwards the object is used-after-free.

For ghes the refcount is initialized with zero, and that is why we see
this message. However, we protect the refcount with the ghes_reg_mutex
and thus there is no use after free. The device is allocated and
registered if the refcount is zero. So this works fine.

Enclosed a fix that avoids the warning, please test.

But see below...

[ 21.884972] sp : ffff00236ffbf8a0
[ 21.888274] x29: ffff00236ffbf8a0 x28: 0000000000000002
[ 21.893576] x27: ffff00236cd07900 x26: ffff002369063010
[ 21.898876] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff00233c236824
[ 21.904177] x23: ffffa000137b9000 x22: ffffa00016fbb7c0
[ 21.909477] x21: ffffa00012dfd000 x20: 1fffe0046dff7f24
[ 21.914777] x19: ffff00233c236000 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 21.920077] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 21.925377] x15: 0000000000007700 x14: 64655f7365686720
[ 21.930677] x13: 72656c6c6f72746e x12: 1ffff40002719618
[ 21.935977] x11: ffff940002719618 x10: dfffa00000000000
[ 21.941278] x9 : ffff940002719619 x8 : 0000000000000001
[ 21.946578] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001
[ 21.951877] x5 : ffff940002719618 x4 : ffff00236ffb0010
[ 21.957178] x3 : ffffa000112415e4 x2 : ffff80046dff7ede
[ 21.962478] x1 : 5aff78756b1cf400 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 21.967779] Call trace:
[ 21.970214] refcount_inc_checked+0x44/0x50
[ 21.974389] ghes_edac_register+0x258/0x388
[ 21.978562] ghes_probe+0x28c/0x5f0
[ 21.982041] platform_drv_probe+0x70/0xd8
[ 21.986039] really_probe+0x174/0x468
[ 21.989690] driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x148
[ 21.993862] device_driver_attach+0x94/0xa0
[ 21.998033] __driver_attach+0xa4/0x110
[ 22.001857] bus_for_each_dev+0xe8/0x158
[ 22.005768] driver_attach+0x30/0x40
[ 22.009331] bus_add_driver+0x234/0x2f0
[ 22.013156] driver_register+0xbc/0x1d0
[ 22.016981] __platform_driver_register+0x7c/0x88
[ 22.021675] ghes_init+0xbc/0x14c
[ 22.024979] do_one_initcall+0xb4/0x254
[ 22.028805] kernel_init_freeable+0x248/0x2f4
[ 22.033151] kernel_init+0x10/0x118
[ 22.036628] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[ 22.040194] ---[ end trace 33655bb65a9835fe ]---
[ 22.046666] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.046666] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.058311] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.065402] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.065402] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.077080] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.084140] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.084140] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.095789] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.102873] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.102873] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.115442] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.122536] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.122536] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.134344] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.141441] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.141441] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.153089] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core
[ 22.160161] EDAC MC: bug in low-level driver: attempt to assign
[ 22.160161] duplicate mc_idx 0 in add_mc_to_global_list()
[ 22.171810] ghes_edac: Can't register at EDAC core

What I am more concerned is this here. In total this implies 8 ghes
users that all try to register a (single-instance) ghes mc device. For
non-x86 only one instance is allowed (see ghes_edac_register(), idx =
0).


[cc some guys about HEST]

So on your platform, when parsing the HEST table
(hest_ghes_dev_register()), more than one "GHES" device is parsed,
allocated and registered. Mind sending me your HEST table
(/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/HEST), or explain what happens here?

I think that this should be the same:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Silicon/Hisilicon/Hi1620/Drivers/Apei/Hest


If
this is a valid use case, we need to change ghes_edac_register() to
support more than one instance.

Again, please try the patch below.

Thanks,

-Robert


From 6962f8af4a7c1051c9e87a5ac60571f70d2b6814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:01:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] EDAC/ghes: Do not warn on when increment refcount on 0

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
index 47f4e7f90ef0..b99080d8a10c 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
@@ -556,8 +556,8 @@ int ghes_edac_register(struct ghes *ghes, struct device *dev)
ghes_pvt = pvt;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ghes_lock, flags);
- /* only increment on success */
- refcount_inc(&ghes_refcount);
+ /* only set on success */
+ refcount_set(&ghes_refcount, 1);

Yep, that seems to have silenced it all:

[ 21.739895] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
[ 21.749848] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 21.816977] [Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0x94110034/64/0/3/0]
[ 21.827880] EDAC MC0: Giving out device to module ghes_edac.c controller ghes_edac: DEV ghes (INTERRUPT)
[ 21.841313] GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by APEI bit and WHEA _OSC.
[ 21.849176] EINJ: Error INJection is initialized.
[ 21.855135] ACPI GTDT: found 1 SBSA generic Watchdog(s).

Thanks,
John

unlock:
mutex_unlock(&ghes_reg_mutex);



Cheers,
John