[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] x86/livepatch: Prevent patching with active waitqueues

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The safety of livepatching depends on every stack having been unwound, but
there is one corner case where this is not true.  The Sharing/Paging/Monitor
infrastructure may use waitqueues, which copy the stack frame sideways and
longjmp() to a different vcpu.

This case is rare, and can be worked around by pausing the offending
domain(s), waiting for their rings to drain, then performing a livepatch.

In the case that there is an active waitqueue, fail the livepatch attempt with
-EBUSY, which is preforable to the fireworks which occur from trying to unwind
the old stack frame at a later point.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

This fix wants backporting, and is long overdue for posting upstream.
---
 xen/arch/arm/livepatch.c    |  5 +++++
 xen/arch/x86/livepatch.c    | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/common/livepatch.c      |  7 +++++++
 xen/include/xen/livepatch.h |  1 +
 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/livepatch.c b/xen/arch/arm/livepatch.c
index 00c5e2bc45..915e9d926a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/livepatch.c
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 
 void *vmap_of_xen_text;
 
+int arch_livepatch_safety_check(void)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int arch_livepatch_quiesce(void)
 {
     mfn_t text_mfn;
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/livepatch.c b/xen/arch/x86/livepatch.c
index c82cf53b9e..0f129fa6b2 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/livepatch.c
@@ -14,6 +14,45 @@
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
 #include <asm/livepatch.h>
 
+static bool has_active_waitqueue(const struct vm_event_domain *ved)
+{
+    /* ved may be xzalloc()'d without INIT_LIST_HEAD() yet. */
+    return (ved && !list_head_is_null(&ved->wq.list) &&
+            !list_empty(&ved->wq.list));
+}
+
+/*
+ * x86's implementation of waitqueue violates the livepatching safey principle
+ * of having unwound every CPUs stack before modifying live content.
+ *
+ * Search through every domain and check that no vCPUs have an active
+ * waitqueue.
+ */
+int arch_livepatch_safety_check(void);
+{
+    struct domain *d;
+
+    for_each_domain ( d )
+    {
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SHARING
+        if ( has_active_waitqueue(d->vm_event_share) )
+            goto fail;
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_PAGING
+        if ( has_active_waitqueue(d->vm_event_paging) )
+            goto fail;
+#endif
+        if ( has_active_waitqueue(d->vm_event_monitor) )
+            goto fail;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+
+ fail:
+    printk(XENLOG_ERR LIVEPATCH "%pd found with active waitqueue\n", d);
+    return -EBUSY;
+}
+
 int arch_livepatch_quiesce(void)
 {
     /* Disable WP to allow changes to read-only pages. */
diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch.c b/xen/common/livepatch.c
index 962647616a..27ee5bdeb7 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch.c
@@ -1060,6 +1060,13 @@ static int apply_payload(struct payload *data)
     unsigned int i;
     int rc;
 
+    rc = apply_safety_checks();
+    if ( rc )
+    {
+        printk(XENLOG_ERR LIVEPATCH "%s: Safety checks failed\n", data->name);
+        return rc;
+    }
+
     printk(XENLOG_INFO LIVEPATCH "%s: Applying %u functions\n",
             data->name, data->nfuncs);
 
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/livepatch.h b/xen/include/xen/livepatch.h
index 1b1817ca0d..69ede75d20 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/livepatch.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/livepatch.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static inline int livepatch_verify_distance(const struct 
livepatch_func *func)
  * These functions are called around the critical region patching live code,
  * for an architecture to take make appropratie global state adjustments.
  */
+int arch_livepatch_safety_check(void);
 int arch_livepatch_quiesce(void);
 void arch_livepatch_revive(void);
 
-- 
2.11.0


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