[PATCH 5.10 167/717] rcu: Allow rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from NMI

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 28 2020 - 10:12:00 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 6dbce04d8417ae706596366e16841d77c454ba52 ]

Eugenio managed to tickle #PF from NMI context which resulted in
hitting a WARN in RCU through irqentry_enter() ->
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick().

However, this situation is perfectly sane and does not warrant an
WARN. The #PF will (necessarily) be atomic and not require messing
with the tick state, so early return is correct. This commit
therefore removes the WARN.

Fixes: aaf2bc50df1f ("rcu: Abstract out rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from rcu_nmi_enter()")
Reported-by: "Eugenio Pérez" <eupm90@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index bd04b09b84b32..655ade095e043 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -928,8 +928,8 @@ void __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick(void)
{
struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);

- // Enabling the tick is unsafe in NMI handlers.
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi()))
+ // If we're here from NMI there's nothing to do.
+ if (in_nmi())
return;

RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs(),
--
2.27.0