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Commit f0cd5ac1 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: entry: fix NMI {user, kernel}->kernel transitions



Exceptions which can be taken at (almost) any time are consdiered to be
NMIs. On arm64 that includes:

* SDEI events
* GICv3 Pseudo-NMIs
* Kernel stack overflows
* Unexpected/unhandled exceptions

... but currently debug exceptions (BRKs, breakpoints, watchpoints,
single-step) are not considered NMIs.

As these can be taken at any time, kernel features (lockdep, RCU,
ftrace) may not be in a consistent kernel state. For example, we may
take an NMI from the idle code or partway through an entry/exit path.

While nmi_enter() and nmi_exit() handle most of this state, notably they
don't save/restore the lockdep state across an NMI being taken and
handled. When interrupts are enabled and an NMI is taken, lockdep may
see interrupts become disabled within the NMI code, but not see
interrupts become enabled when returning from the NMI, leaving lockdep
believing interrupts are disabled when they are actually disabled.

The x86 code handles this in idtentry_{enter,exit}_nmi(), which will
shortly be moved to the generic entry code. As we can't use either yet,
we copy the x86 approach in arm64-specific helpers. All the NMI
entrypoints are marked as noinstr to prevent any instrumentation
handling code being invoked before the state has been corrected.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201130115950.22492-11-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 7cd1ea10
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