FAILED: patch "[PATCH] membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when SYNC_CORE is" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 758c9373d84168dc7d039cf85a0e920046b17b41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:07:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when SYNC_CORE is
requested

membarrier() does not explicitly sync_core() remote CPUs; instead, it relies on the assumption that an IPI will result in a core sync. On x86, this may be true in practice, but it's not architecturally reliable. In particular, the SDM and APM do not appear to guarantee that interrupt delivery is serializing. While IRET does serialize, IPI return can schedule, thereby switching to another task in the same mm that was sleeping in a syscall. The new task could then SYSRET back to usermode without ever executing IRET.

Make this more robust by explicitly calling sync_core_before_usermode() on remote cores. (This also helps people who search the kernel tree for instances of sync_core() and sync_core_before_usermode() -- one might be surprised that the core membarrier code doesn't currently show up in a such a search.)

index 7d98ef5d3bcd..1c278dff4f2d 100644
@@ -38,6 +38,23 @@ static void ipi_mb(void *info)
 	smp_mb();	/* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
 }
 
+static void ipi_sync_core(void *info)
+{
+	/*
+	 * The smp_mb() in membarrier after all the IPIs is supposed to
+	 * ensure that memory on remote CPUs that occur before the IPI
+	 * become visible to membarrier()'s caller -- see scenario B in
+	 * the big comment at the top of this file.
+	 *
+	 * A sync_core() would provide this guarantee, but
+	 * sync_core_before_usermode() might end up being deferred until
+	 * after membarrier()'s smp_mb().
+	 */
+	smp_mb();	/* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
+
+	sync_core_before_usermode();
+}
+
 static void ipi_rseq(void *info)
 {
 	/*

@@ -162,6 +179,7 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags, int cpu_id)
 		if (!(atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state) &
 		      MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE_READY))
 			return -EPERM;
+		ipi_func = ipi_sync_core;
 	} else if (flags == MEMBARRIER_FLAG_RSEQ) {
 		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RSEQ))
 			return -EINVAL;