Re: [PATCH] xen/events: close evtchn after mapping cleanup

From: Maximilian Heyne
Date: Thu Feb 08 2024 - 07:38:49 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 04:31:28PM +0000, Maximilian Heyne wrote:
> shutdown_pirq and startup_pirq are not taking the
> irq_mapping_update_lock because they can't due to lock inversion. Both
> are called with the irq_desc->lock being taking. The lock order,
> however, is first irq_mapping_update_lock and then irq_desc->lock.
>
> This opens multiple races:
> - shutdown_pirq can be interrupted by a function that allocates an event
> channel:
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> shutdown_pirq {
> xen_evtchn_close(e)
> __startup_pirq {
> EVTCHNOP_bind_pirq
> -> returns just freed evtchn e
> set_evtchn_to_irq(e, irq)
> }
> xen_irq_info_cleanup() {
> set_evtchn_to_irq(e, -1)
> }
> }
>
> Assume here event channel e refers here to the same event channel
> number.
> After this race the evtchn_to_irq mapping for e is invalid (-1).
>
> - __startup_pirq races with __unbind_from_irq in a similar way. Because
> __startup_pirq doesn't take irq_mapping_update_lock it can grab the
> evtchn that __unbind_from_irq is currently freeing and cleaning up. In
> this case even though the event channel is allocated, its mapping can
> be unset in evtchn_to_irq.
>
> The fix is to first cleanup the mappings and then close the event
> channel. In this way, when an event channel gets allocated it's
> potential previous evtchn_to_irq mappings are guaranteed to be unset already.
> This is also the reverse order of the allocation where first the event
> channel is allocated and then the mappings are setup.
>
> On a 5.10 kernel prior to commit 3fcdaf3d7634 ("xen/events: modify internal
> [un]bind interfaces"), we hit a BUG like the following during probing of NVMe
> devices. The issue is that during nvme_setup_io_queues, pci_free_irq
> is called for every device which results in a call to shutdown_pirq.
> With many nvme devices it's therefore likely to hit this race during
> boot because there will be multiple calls to shutdown_pirq and
> startup_pirq are running potentially in parallel.
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> blkfront: xvda: barrier or flush: disabled; persistent grants: enabled; indirect descriptors: enabled; bounce buffer: enabled
> kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:499!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> CPU: 44 PID: 375 Comm: kworker/u257:23 Not tainted 5.10.201-191.748.amzn2.x86_64 #1
> Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.11.amazon 08/24/2006
> Workqueue: nvme-reset-wq nvme_reset_work
> RIP: 0010:bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0
> Code: 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc 44 89 f7 e8 2b 55 ad ff 49 89 c5 48 85 c0 0f 84 64 ff ff ff 4c 8b 68 30 41 83 fe ff 0f 85 60 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00
> RSP: 0000:ffffc9000d533b08 EFLAGS: 00010046
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006
> RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: 00000000ffffffff
> RBP: ffff888107419680 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff82d72b00
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000001ed
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000002
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bc8b500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002610001 CR4: 00000000001706e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Call Trace:
> ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c1/0x2d9
> ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c1/0x2d9
> ? set_affinity_irq+0xdc/0x1c0
> ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd
> ? die+0x2b/0x50
> ? do_trap+0x90/0x110
> ? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0
> ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80
> ? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0
> ? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70
> ? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0
> ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x12/0x20
> ? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0
> ? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xc5/0xf0
> set_affinity_irq+0xdc/0x1c0
> irq_do_set_affinity+0x1d7/0x1f0
> irq_setup_affinity+0xd6/0x1a0
> irq_startup+0x8a/0xf0
> __setup_irq+0x639/0x6d0
> ? nvme_suspend+0x150/0x150
> request_threaded_irq+0x10c/0x180
> ? nvme_suspend+0x150/0x150
> pci_request_irq+0xa8/0xf0
> ? __blk_mq_free_request+0x74/0xa0
> queue_request_irq+0x6f/0x80
> nvme_create_queue+0x1af/0x200
> nvme_create_io_queues+0xbd/0xf0
> nvme_setup_io_queues+0x246/0x320
> ? nvme_irq_check+0x30/0x30
> nvme_reset_work+0x1c8/0x400
> process_one_work+0x1b0/0x350
> worker_thread+0x49/0x310
> ? process_one_work+0x350/0x350
> kthread+0x11b/0x140
> ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
> ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> Modules linked in:
> ---[ end trace a11715de1eee1873 ]---
>
> Fixes: d46a78b05c0e ("xen: implement pirq type event channels")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Co-debugged-by: Andrew Panyakin <apanyaki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx>

Friendly ping. Did anyone find time to look at this?



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