Commit 184e1fdf authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86, mce: fix a race condition about mce_callin and no_way_out

If one CPU has no_way_out == 1, all other CPUs should have no_way_out
== 1. But despite global_nwo is read after mce_callin, global_nwo is
updated after mce_callin too. So it is possible that some CPU read
global_nwo before some other CPU update global_nwo, so that no_way_out
== 1 for some CPU, while no_way_out == 0 for some other CPU.

This patch fixes this race condition via moving mce_callin updating
after global_nwo updating, with a smp_wmb in between. A smp_rmb is
added between their reading too.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
parent 300df7dc
...@@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ static int mce_start(int no_way_out, int *order) ...@@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ static int mce_start(int no_way_out, int *order)
} }
atomic_add(no_way_out, &global_nwo); atomic_add(no_way_out, &global_nwo);
/*
* global_nwo should be updated before mce_callin
*/
smp_wmb();
*order = atomic_add_return(1, &mce_callin);
/* /*
* Wait for everyone. * Wait for everyone.
...@@ -716,6 +721,10 @@ static int mce_start(int no_way_out, int *order) ...@@ -716,6 +721,10 @@ static int mce_start(int no_way_out, int *order)
ndelay(SPINUNIT); ndelay(SPINUNIT);
} }
/*
* mce_callin should be read before global_nwo
*/
smp_rmb();
/* /*
* Cache the global no_way_out state. * Cache the global no_way_out state.
*/ */
...@@ -862,7 +871,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) ...@@ -862,7 +871,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
* Establish sequential order between the CPUs entering the machine * Establish sequential order between the CPUs entering the machine
* check handler. * check handler.
*/ */
int order; int order = -1;
/* /*
* If no_way_out gets set, there is no safe way to recover from this * If no_way_out gets set, there is no safe way to recover from this
...@@ -887,7 +896,6 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) ...@@ -887,7 +896,6 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
if (!banks) if (!banks)
goto out; goto out;
order = atomic_add_return(1, &mce_callin);
mce_setup(&m); mce_setup(&m);
m.mcgstatus = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS); m.mcgstatus = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS);
......
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