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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Prevent deadlock against tk_core.seq" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message May 17, 2021

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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]>.

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greg k-h

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

From 3f804f6d201ca93adf4c3df04d1bfd152c1129d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 15:21:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Prevent deadlock against tk_core.seq

syzbot reported a possible deadlock in pvclock_gtod_notify():

CPU 0 CPU 1
write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);

  pvclock_gtod_notify()			    spin_lock(&pool->lock);
    queue_work(..., &pvclock_gtod_work)	    ktime_get()
     spin_lock(&pool->lock);		      do {
     						seq = read_seqcount_begin(tk_core.seq)
						...
				              } while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq);

While this is unlikely to happen, it's possible.

Delegate queue_work() to irq_work() which postpones it until the tk_core.seq write held region is left and interrupts are reenabled.

Fixes 16e8d74d2da9 ("KVM: x86: notifier for clocksource changes")
Reported-by [email protected]
Signed-off-by Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +18 -4
index 259139a145cb..5bd550eaf683 100644
@@ -8094,6 +8094,18 @@ static void pvclock_gtod_update_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 
 static DECLARE_WORK(pvclock_gtod_work, pvclock_gtod_update_fn);
 
+/*
+ * Indirection to move queue_work() out of the tk_core.seq write held
+ * region to prevent possible deadlocks against time accessors which
+ * are invoked with work related locks held.
+ */
+static void pvclock_irq_work_fn(struct irq_work *w)
+{
+	queue_work(system_long_wq, &pvclock_gtod_work);
+}
+
+static DEFINE_IRQ_WORK(pvclock_irq_work, pvclock_irq_work_fn);
+
 /*
  * Notification about pvclock gtod data update.
  */

@@ -8105,13 +8117,14 @@ static int pvclock_gtod_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long unused,
 
 	update_pvclock_gtod(tk);
 
-	/* disable master clock if host does not trust, or does not
-	 * use, TSC based clocksource.
+	/*
+	 * Disable master clock if host does not trust, or does not use,
+	 * TSC based clocksource. Delegate queue_work() to irq_work as
+	 * this is invoked with tk_core.seq write held.
 	 */
 	if (!gtod_is_based_on_tsc(gtod->clock.vclock_mode) &&
 	    atomic_read(&kvm_guest_has_master_clock) != 0)
-		queue_work(system_long_wq, &pvclock_gtod_work);
-
+		irq_work_queue(&pvclock_irq_work);
 	return 0;
 }
 

@@ -8224,6 +8237,7 @@ void kvm_arch_exit(void)
 	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(&pvclock_gtod_notifier);
+	irq_work_sync(&pvclock_irq_work);
 	cancel_work_sync(&pvclock_gtod_work);
 #endif
 	kvm_x86_ops.hardware_enable = NULL;