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Yosry Ahmed 17c72808db x86/mm: Use IPIs to synchronize LAM enablement 
[ Upstream commit 3b299b9955 ]

LAM can only be enabled when a process is single-threaded.  But _kernel_
threads can temporarily use a single-threaded process's mm.

If LAM is enabled by a userspace process while a kthread is using its
mm, the kthread will not observe LAM enablement (i.e.  LAM will be
disabled in CR3). This could be fine for the kthread itself, as LAM only
affects userspace addresses. However, if the kthread context switches to
a thread in the same userspace process, CR3 may or may not be updated
because the mm_struct doesn't change (based on pending TLB flushes). If
CR3 is not updated, the userspace thread will run incorrectly with LAM
disabled, which may cause page faults when using tagged addresses.
Example scenario:

CPU 1                                   CPU 2
/* kthread */
kthread_use_mm()
                                        /* user thread */
                                        prctl_enable_tagged_addr()
                                        /* LAM enabled on CPU 2 */
/* LAM disabled on CPU 1 */
                                        context_switch() /* to CPU 1 */
/* Switching to user thread */
switch_mm_irqs_off()
/* CR3 not updated */
/* LAM is still disabled on CPU 1 */

Synchronize LAM enablement by sending an IPI to all CPUs running with
the mm_struct to enable LAM. This makes sure LAM is enabled on CPU 1
in the above scenario before prctl_enable_tagged_addr() returns and
userspace starts using tagged addresses, and before it's possible to
run the userspace process on CPU 1.

In switch_mm_irqs_off(), move reading the LAM mask until after
mm_cpumask() is updated. This ensures that if an outdated LAM mask is
written to CR3, an IPI is received to update it right after IRQs are
re-enabled.

[ dhansen: Add a LAM enabling helper and comment it ]

Fixes: 82721d8b25 ("x86/mm: Handle LAM on context switch")
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240702132139.3332013-2-yosryahmed%40google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-10-04 16:29:04 +02:00
arch x86/mm: Use IPIs to synchronize LAM enablement 2024-10-04 16:29:04 +02:00
block block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition 2024-10-04 16:29:01 +02:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: xor - fix template benchmarking 2024-10-04 16:28:49 +02:00
Documentation hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust() 2024-09-08 07:54:43 +02:00
drivers clocksource/drivers/qcom: Add missing iounmap() on errors in msm_dt_timer_init() 2024-10-04 16:29:04 +02:00
fs erofs: fix incorrect symlink detection in fast symlink 2024-10-04 16:29:00 +02:00
include Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix sending MGMT_EV_CONNECT_FAILED 2024-10-04 16:28:57 +02:00
init rust: fix the default format for CONFIG_{RUSTC,BINDGEN}_VERSION_TEXT 2024-08-29 17:33:29 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/io-wq: inherit cpuset of cgroup in io worker 2024-10-04 16:29:01 +02:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table) 2024-08-11 12:47:13 +02:00
kernel padata: Honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 2024-10-04 16:28:52 +02:00
lib lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc() 2024-09-12 11:11:39 +02:00
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mm mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case 2024-09-18 19:24:07 +02:00
net ipv6: avoid possible NULL deref in rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() 2024-10-04 16:28:59 +02:00
rust rust: kbuild: fix export of bss symbols 2024-09-12 11:11:32 +02:00
samples bpf: Replace bpf_lpm_trie_key 0-length array with flexible array 2024-08-19 06:04:27 +02:00
scripts scripts: kconfig: merge_config: config files: add a trailing newline 2024-09-18 19:24:05 +02:00
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sound ALSA: hda: add HDMI codec ID for Intel PTL 2024-09-30 16:25:11 +02:00
tools pm:cpupower: Add missing powercap_set_enabled() stub function 2024-10-04 16:28:55 +02:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:49:11 +02:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS membarrier: riscv: Add full memory barrier in switch_mm() 2024-09-12 11:11:45 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.53 2024-09-30 16:25:15 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.