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membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when SYNC_CORE is requested
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Dec 2020 05:07:05 +0000 (21:07 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:37:43 +0000 (09:37 +0100)
commitdcd7f42f00492dd8151ada1527c60b5a00cf7670
treef3f9f01ed246b831abadedd53887d2d9a81935af
parentbd3e5b56c1e7660d4aa5a3fbbfe1f11d47789c87
membarrier: Explicitly sync remote cores when SYNC_CORE is requested

membarrier() does not explicitly sync_core() remote CPUs; instead, it
relies on the assumption that an IPI will result in a core sync.  On x86,
this may be true in practice, but it's not architecturally reliable.  In
particular, the SDM and APM do not appear to guarantee that interrupt
delivery is serializing.  While IRET does serialize, IPI return can
schedule, thereby switching to another task in the same mm that was
sleeping in a syscall.  The new task could then SYSRET back to usermode
without ever executing IRET.

Make this more robust by explicitly calling sync_core_before_usermode()
on remote cores.  (This also helps people who search the kernel tree for
instances of sync_core() and sync_core_before_usermode() -- one might be
surprised that the core membarrier code doesn't currently show up in a
such a search.)

Fixes: be6b11d7b1c1 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/776b448d5f7bd6b12690707f5ed67bcda7f1d427.1607058304.git.luto@kernel.org
kernel/sched/membarrier.c