[PATCH] kcov, usb, vhost: specify contexts for remote coverage sections

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Oct 07 2020 - 13:30:58 EST


Currently there's a KCOV remote coverage collection section in
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb(). Initially that section was added based on the
assumption that usb_hcd_giveback_urb() can only be called in interrupt
context as indicated by a comment before it.

As it turns out, it's actually valid to call usb_hcd_giveback_urb() in task
context, provided that the caller turned off the interrupts; USB/IP actually
does that. This can lead to a nested KCOV remote coverage collection
sections both trying to collect coverage in task context. This isn't
supported by KCOV, and leads to a WARNING.

The approach this patch takes is to annotate every call of kcov_remote_*()
callbacks with the context those callbacks are supposed to be executed in.
If the current context doesn't match the mask provided to a callback,
that callback is ignored. KCOV currently only supports collecting remote
coverage in two contexts: task and softirq.

As the result, the coverage from USB/IP related usb_hcd_giveback_urb() calls
won't be collected, but the WARNING is fixed.

A potential future improvement would be to support nested remote coverage
collection sections, but this patch doesn't address that.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst | 5 +++++
drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 4 ++--
drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 4 ++--
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/kcov.h | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
kernel/kcov.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
6 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
index 8548b0b04e43..99fda94a34c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
@@ -235,6 +235,11 @@ saved to the kcov_handle field in the current task_struct and needs to be
passed to the newly spawned threads via custom annotations. Those threads
should in turn be annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop().

+Besides a handle, kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop() annotations accept
+a context mask. This mask describes the contexts in which these annotations
+should be applied. E.g. specifying KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ will result in the
+corresponding annotations being ignored in any context other than softirq.
+
Internally kcov stores handles as u64 integers. The top byte of a handle
is used to denote the id of a subsystem that this handle belongs to, and
the lower 4 bytes are used to denote the id of a thread instance within
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
index a33b849e8beb..1b090e3218a8 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
@@ -1646,9 +1646,9 @@ static void __usb_hcd_giveback_urb(struct urb *urb)

/* pass ownership to the completion handler */
urb->status = status;
- kcov_remote_start_usb((u64)urb->dev->bus->busnum);
+ kcov_remote_start_usb((u64)urb->dev->bus->busnum, KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ);
urb->complete(urb);
- kcov_remote_stop();
+ kcov_remote_stop(KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ);

usb_anchor_resume_wakeups(anchor);
atomic_dec(&urb->use_count);
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 5b768b80d1ee..d17db72dd020 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -5509,7 +5509,7 @@ static void hub_event(struct work_struct *work)
hub_dev = hub->intfdev;
intf = to_usb_interface(hub_dev);

- kcov_remote_start_usb((u64)hdev->bus->busnum);
+ kcov_remote_start_usb((u64)hdev->bus->busnum, KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK);

dev_dbg(hub_dev, "state %d ports %d chg %04x evt %04x\n",
hdev->state, hdev->maxchild,
@@ -5618,7 +5618,7 @@ static void hub_event(struct work_struct *work)
usb_autopm_put_interface(intf);
kref_put(&hub->kref, hub_release);

- kcov_remote_stop();
+ kcov_remote_stop(KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK);
}

static const struct usb_device_id hub_id_table[] = {
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index b45519ca66a7..8913de414e89 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -363,9 +363,10 @@ static int vhost_worker(void *data)
llist_for_each_entry_safe(work, work_next, node, node) {
clear_bit(VHOST_WORK_QUEUED, &work->flags);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
- kcov_remote_start_common(dev->kcov_handle);
+ kcov_remote_start_common(dev->kcov_handle,
+ KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK);
work->fn(work);
- kcov_remote_stop();
+ kcov_remote_stop(KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK);
if (need_resched())
schedule();
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kcov.h b/include/linux/kcov.h
index a10e84707d82..507003038918 100644
--- a/include/linux/kcov.h
+++ b/include/linux/kcov.h
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ enum kcov_mode {
KCOV_MODE_TRACE_CMP = 3,
};

+#define KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK (1u << 0)
+#define KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ (1u << 1)
+#define KCOV_CONTEXT_MASK (KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK | KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ)
+
#define KCOV_IN_CTXSW (1 << 30)

void kcov_task_init(struct task_struct *t);
@@ -38,18 +42,18 @@ do { \
} while (0)

/* See Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst for usage details. */
-void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle);
-void kcov_remote_stop(void);
+void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle, unsigned int context);
+void kcov_remote_stop(unsigned int context);
u64 kcov_common_handle(void);

-static inline void kcov_remote_start_common(u64 id)
+static inline void kcov_remote_start_common(u64 id, unsigned int context)
{
- kcov_remote_start(kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_COMMON, id));
+ kcov_remote_start(kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_COMMON, id), context);
}

-static inline void kcov_remote_start_usb(u64 id)
+static inline void kcov_remote_start_usb(u64 id, unsigned int context)
{
- kcov_remote_start(kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_USB, id));
+ kcov_remote_start(kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_USB, id), context);
}

#else
@@ -58,14 +62,14 @@ static inline void kcov_task_init(struct task_struct *t) {}
static inline void kcov_task_exit(struct task_struct *t) {}
static inline void kcov_prepare_switch(struct task_struct *t) {}
static inline void kcov_finish_switch(struct task_struct *t) {}
-static inline void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle) {}
-static inline void kcov_remote_stop(void) {}
+static inline void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle, unsigned int context) {}
+static inline void kcov_remote_stop(unsigned int context) {}
static inline u64 kcov_common_handle(void)
{
return 0;
}
-static inline void kcov_remote_start_common(u64 id) {}
-static inline void kcov_remote_start_usb(u64 id) {}
+static inline void kcov_remote_start_common(u64 id, unsigned int context) {}
+static inline void kcov_remote_start_usb(u64 id, unsigned int context) {}

#endif /* CONFIG_KCOV */
#endif /* _LINUX_KCOV_H */
diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
index 6b8368be89c8..911bece5242e 100644
--- a/kernel/kcov.c
+++ b/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static void kcov_remote_softirq_stop(struct task_struct *t)
}
}

-void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
+void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle, unsigned int context)
{
struct task_struct *t = current;
struct kcov_remote *remote;
@@ -821,7 +821,11 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)

if (WARN_ON(!kcov_check_handle(handle, true, true, true)))
return;
- if (!in_task() && !in_serving_softirq())
+ if (WARN_ON((context & ~KCOV_CONTEXT_MASK) || !context))
+ return;
+ if ((context & KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK) && !in_task())
+ return;
+ if ((context & KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ) && !in_softirq())
return;

local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -952,7 +956,7 @@ static void kcov_move_area(enum kcov_mode mode, void *dst_area,
}

/* See the comment before kcov_remote_start() for usage details. */
-void kcov_remote_stop(void)
+void kcov_remote_stop(unsigned int context)
{
struct task_struct *t = current;
struct kcov *kcov;
@@ -962,7 +966,11 @@ void kcov_remote_stop(void)
int sequence;
unsigned long flags;

- if (!in_task() && !in_serving_softirq())
+ if (WARN_ON((context & ~KCOV_CONTEXT_MASK) || !context))
+ return;
+ if ((context & KCOV_CONTEXT_TASK) && !in_task())
+ return;
+ if ((context & KCOV_CONTEXT_SOFTIRQ) && !in_softirq())
return;

local_irq_save(flags);
--
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