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Commit 69f7d801 authored by Waiman Long's avatar Waiman Long Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/nmi: Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in nmi_shootdown_cpus()



[ Upstream commit fe37c699ae3eed6e02ee55fbf5cb9ceb7fcfd76c ]

Depending on the type of panics, it was found that the
__register_nmi_handler() function can be called in NMI context from
nmi_shootdown_cpus() leading to a lockdep splat:

  WARNING: inconsistent lock state
  inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -> {IN-NMI} usage.

   lock(&nmi_desc[0].lock);
   <Interrupt>
     lock(&nmi_desc[0].lock);

  Call Trace:
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    __register_nmi_handler
    nmi_shootdown_cpus
    kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus
    native_machine_crash_shutdown
    __crash_kexec

In this particular case, the following panic message was printed before:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal hardware error!

This message seemed to be given out from __ghes_panic() running in
NMI context.

The __register_nmi_handler() function which takes the nmi_desc lock
with irq disabled shouldn't be called from NMI context as this can
lead to deadlock.

The nmi_shootdown_cpus() function can only be invoked once. After the
first invocation, all other CPUs should be stuck in the newly added
crash_nmi_callback() and cannot respond to a second NMI.

Fix it by adding a new emergency NMI handler to the nmi_desc
structure and provide a new set_emergency_nmi_handler() helper to set
crash_nmi_callback() in any context. The new emergency handler will
preempt other handlers in the linked list. That will eliminate the need
to take any lock and serve the panic in NMI use case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206191844.131700-1-longman@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 611fba29
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