commits

The SGX driver maintains a single global free page counter,
sgx_nr_free_pages, that reflects the number of free pages available
across all NUMA nodes. Correspondingly, a list of free pages is
associated with each NUMA node and sgx_nr_free_pages is updated
every time a page is added or removed from any of the free page
lists. The main usage of sgx_nr_free_pages is by the reclaimer
that runs when it (sgx_nr_free_pages) goes below a watermark
to ensure that there are always some free pages available to, for
example, support efficient page faults.

With sgx_nr_free_pages accessed and modified from a few places
it is essential to ensure that these accesses are done safely but
this is not the case. sgx_nr_free_pages is read without any
protection and updated with inconsistent protection by any one
of the spin locks associated with the individual NUMA nodes.
For example:

CPU_A CPU_B
----- -----
spin_lock(&nodeA->lock); spin_lock(&nodeB->lock);
... ...
sgx_nr_free_pages--; /* NOT SAFE */ sgx_nr_free_pages--;

spin_unlock(&nodeA->lock); spin_unlock(&nodeB->lock);

Since sgx_nr_free_pages may be protected by different spin locks
while being modified from different CPUs, the following scenario
is possible:

CPU_A CPU_B
----- -----
{sgx_nr_free_pages = 100}
spin_lock(&nodeA->lock); spin_lock(&nodeB->lock);
sgx_nr_free_pages--; sgx_nr_free_pages--;
/* LOAD sgx_nr_free_pages = 100 */ /* LOAD sgx_nr_free_pages = 100 */
/* sgx_nr_free_pages-- */ /* sgx_nr_free_pages-- */
/* STORE sgx_nr_free_pages = 99 */ /* STORE sgx_nr_free_pages = 99 */
spin_unlock(&nodeA->lock); spin_unlock(&nodeB->lock);

In the above scenario, sgx_nr_free_pages is decremented from two CPUs
but instead of sgx_nr_free_pages ending with a value that is two less
than it started with, it was only decremented by one while the number
of free pages were actually reduced by two. The consequence of
sgx_nr_free_pages not being protected is that its value may not
accurately reflect the actual number of free pages on the system,
impacting the availability of free pages in support of many flows.

The problematic scenario is when the reclaimer does not run because it
believes there to be sufficient free pages while any attempt to allocate
a page fails because there are no free pages available. In the SGX driver
the reclaimer's watermark is only 32 pages so after encountering the
above example scenario 32 times a user space hang is possible when there
are no more free pages because of repeated page faults caused by no
free pages made available.

The following flow was encountered:
asm_exc_page_fault
...
sgx_vma_fault()
sgx_encl_load_page()
sgx_encl_eldu() // Encrypted page needs to be loaded from backing
// storage into newly allocated SGX memory page
sgx_alloc_epc_page() // Allocate a page of SGX memory
__sgx_alloc_epc_page() // Fails, no free SGX memory
...
if (sgx_should_reclaim(SGX_NR_LOW_PAGES)) // Wake reclaimer
wake_up(&ksgxd_waitq);
return -EBUSY; // Return -EBUSY giving reclaimer time to run
return -EBUSY;
return -EBUSY;
return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;

The reclaimer is triggered in above flow with the following code:

static bool sgx_should_reclaim(unsigned long watermark)
{
return sgx_nr_free_pages < watermark &&
!list_empty(&sgx_active_page_list);
}

In the problematic scenario there were no free pages available yet the
value of sgx_nr_free_pages was above the watermark. The allocation of
SGX memory thus always failed because of a lack of free pages while no
free pages were made available because the reclaimer is never started
because of sgx_nr_free_pages' incorrect value. The consequence was that
user space kept encountering VM_FAULT_NOPAGE that caused the same
address to be accessed repeatedly with the same result.

Change the global free page counter to an atomic type that
ensures simultaneous updates are done safely. While doing so, move
the updating of the variable outside of the spin lock critical
section to which it does not belong.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 901ddbb9ecf5 ("x86/sgx: Add a basic NUMA allocation scheme to sgx_alloc_epc_page()")
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a95a40743bbd3f795b465f30922dde7f1ea9e0eb.1637004094.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com