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srcu: Warn when NMI-unsafe API is used in NMI

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Using the NMI-unsafe reader API from within an NMI handler is very likely
to be buggy for three reasons:

1) NMIs aren't strictly re-entrant (a pending nested NMI will execute at
   the end of the current one) so it should be fine to use a non-atomic
   increment here. However, breakpoints can still interrupt NMIs and if
   a breakpoint callback has a reader on that same ssp, a racy increment
   can happen.

2) If the only reader site for a given srcu_struct structure is in an
   NMI handler, then RCU should be used instead of SRCU.

3) Because of the previous reason (2), an srcu_struct structure having
   an SRCU read side critical section in an NMI handler is likely to
   have another one from a task context.

For all these reasons, warn if an NMI-unsafe reader API is used from an
NMI handler.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker 2022-10-13 19:22:42 +02:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
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commit 6b77bb9b99
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@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ static void srcu_check_nmi_safety(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool nmi_safe)
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU))
return;
/* NMI-unsafe use in NMI is a bad sign */
WARN_ON_ONCE(!nmi_safe && in_nmi());
sdp = raw_cpu_ptr(ssp->sda);
old_nmi_safe_mask = READ_ONCE(sdp->srcu_nmi_safety);
if (!old_nmi_safe_mask) {