x86: vdso: fix pvclock races with task migration
authorRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:44:23 +0000 (20:44 +0200)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:46:55 +0000 (10:46 +0200)
If we were migrated right after __getcpu, but before reading the
migration_count, we wouldn't notice that we read TSC of a different
VCPU, nor that KVM's bug made pvti invalid, as only migration_count
on source VCPU is increased.

Change vdso instead of updating migration_count on destination.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Fixes: 0a4e6be9ca17 ("x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations"")
Message-Id: <1428000263-11892-1-git-send-email-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c

index 30933760ee5ff6e3156d0e17a0e132dc0acef49b..40d2473836c923acc5705018bf3aebf50cfb12b8 100644 (file)
@@ -99,21 +99,25 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode)
                 * __getcpu() calls (Gleb).
                 */
 
-               pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
+               /* Make sure migrate_count will change if we leave the VCPU. */
+               do {
+                       pvti = get_pvti(cpu);
+                       migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
 
-               migrate_count = pvti->migrate_count;
+                       cpu1 = cpu;
+                       cpu = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
+               } while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1));
 
                version = __pvclock_read_cycles(&pvti->pvti, &ret, &flags);
 
                /*
                 * Test we're still on the cpu as well as the version.
-                * We could have been migrated just after the first
-                * vgetcpu but before fetching the version, so we
-                * wouldn't notice a version change.
+                * - We must read TSC of pvti's VCPU.
+                * - KVM doesn't follow the versioning protocol, so data could
+                *   change before version if we left the VCPU.
                 */
-               cpu1 = __getcpu() & VGETCPU_CPU_MASK;
-       } while (unlikely(cpu != cpu1 ||
-                         (pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
+               smp_rmb();
+       } while (unlikely((pvti->pvti.version & 1) ||
                          pvti->pvti.version != version ||
                          pvti->migrate_count != migrate_count));