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Paul E. McKenney f44075ecaf x86/nmi: Fix out-of-order NMI nesting checks & false positive warning 
The ->idt_seq and ->recv_jiffies variables added by:

  1a3ea611fc ("x86/nmi: Accumulate NMI-progress evidence in exc_nmi()")

... place the exit-time check of the bottom bit of ->idt_seq after the
this_cpu_dec_return() that re-enables NMI nesting.  This can result in
the following sequence of events on a given CPU in kernels built with
CONFIG_NMI_CHECK_CPU=y:

  o   An NMI arrives, and ->idt_seq is incremented to an odd number.
      In addition, nmi_state is set to NMI_EXECUTING==1.

  o   The NMI is processed.

  o   The this_cpu_dec_return(nmi_state) zeroes nmi_state and returns
      NMI_EXECUTING==1, thus opting out of the "goto nmi_restart".

  o   Another NMI arrives and ->idt_seq is incremented to an even
      number, triggering the warning.  But all is just fine, at least
      assuming we don't get so many closely spaced NMIs that the stack
      overflows or some such.

Experience on the fleet indicates that the MTBF of this false positive
is about 70 years.  Or, for those who are not quite that patient, the
MTBF appears to be about one per week per 4,000 systems.

Fix this false-positive warning by moving the "nmi_restart" label before
the initial ->idt_seq increment/check and moving the this_cpu_dec_return()
to follow the final ->idt_seq increment/check.  This way, all nested NMIs
that get past the NMI_NOT_RUNNING check get a clean ->idt_seq slate.
And if they don't get past that check, they will set nmi_state to
NMI_LATCHED, which will cause the this_cpu_dec_return(nmi_state)
to restart.

Fixes: 1a3ea611fc ("x86/nmi: Accumulate NMI-progress evidence in exc_nmi()")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0cbff831-6e3d-431c-9830-ee65ee7787ff@paulmck-laptop
History 2023-10-12 08:35:15 +02:00
arch x86/nmi: Fix out-of-order NMI nesting checks & false positive warning 2023-10-12 08:35:15 +02:00
block block: fix kernel-doc for disk_force_media_change() 2023-09-26 00:43:34 -06:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: sm2 - Fix crash caused by uninitialized context 2023-09-20 13:10:10 +08:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v6.6, part 2: 2023-10-07 10:05:16 -07:00
drivers - Fix memory leak when freeing dm zoned target device 2023-10-07 10:17:48 -07:00
fs Six SMB3 server fixes 2023-10-08 10:10:52 -07:00
include arm64 fixes for -rc5 2023-10-06 07:46:25 -07:00
init workqueue: Changes for v6.6 2023-09-01 16:06:32 -07:00
io_uring io-wq: fully initialize wqe before calling cpuhp_state_add_instance_nocalls() 2023-10-05 14:11:18 -06:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel Misc fixes: 2023-10-08 09:57:59 -07:00
lib maple_tree: add MAS_UNDERFLOW and MAS_OVERFLOW states 2023-09-29 17:20:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm Fourteen hotfixes, eleven of which are cc:stable. The remainder pertain 2023-10-01 13:33:25 -07:00
net Including fixes from Bluetooth, netfilter, BPF and WiFi. 2023-10-05 11:29:21 -07:00
rust Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts kbuild: remove stale code for 'source' symlink in packaging scripts 2023-10-01 23:06:06 +09:00
security ima: rework CONFIG_IMA dependency block 2023-09-27 11:52:12 -04:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.6 2023-09-20 15:02:16 +02:00
tools Including fixes from Bluetooth, netfilter, BPF and WiFi. 2023-10-05 11:29:21 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.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 MAINTAINERS: update Matthieu's email address 2023-10-05 09:34:32 -07:00
.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 - Fix memory leak when freeing dm zoned target device 2023-10-07 10:17:48 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.6-rc5 2023-10-08 13:49:43 -07:00
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.