🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널 powerpc 퍼포먼스 카운터(perf) 서브시스템에서 power_pmu_disable 함수의 PMI(Performance Monitor Interrupt) 처리 로직이 문제를 일으킵니다. 활성 이벤트가 아닌 비활성 PMC의 오버플로우로 인해 보류된 PMI에 대해 잘못된 경고(WARN_ON)가 발생하며, 이를 제거하고 보류 PMI 해제 로직을 최적화했습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
서버의 성능 측정 기능에서 실제로는 문제가 없는 상황에도 잘못된 경고가 출력되던 버그입니다. 불필요한 검사를 줄여 시스템 효율을 높이도록 수정되었습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/perf: Optimize clearing the pending PMI and remove WARN_ON for PMI check in power_pmu_disable
commit 2c9ac51b850d ("powerpc/perf: Fix PMU callbacks to clear
pending PMI before resetting an overflown PMC") added a new
function "pmi_irq_pending" in hw_irq.h. This function is to check
if there is a PMI marked as pending in Paca (PACA_IRQ_PMI).This is
used in power_pmu_disable in a WARN_ON. The intention here is to
provide a warning if there is PMI pending, but no counter is found
overflown.
During some of the perf runs, below warning is hit:
WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 0 at arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c:1332 power_pmu_disable+0x25c/0x2c0
Modules linked in:
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NIP [c000000000141c3c] power_pmu_disable+0x25c/0x2c0
LR [c000000000141c8c] power_pmu_disable+0x2ac/0x2c0
Call Trace:
[c000000baffcfb90] [c000000000141c8c] power_pmu_disable+0x2ac/0x2c0 (unreliable)
[c000000baffcfc10] [c0000000003e2f8c] perf_pmu_disable+0x4c/0x60
[c000000baffcfc30] [c0000000003e3344] group_sched_out.part.124+0x44/0x100
[c000000baffcfc80] [c0000000003e353c] __perf_event_disable+0x13c/0x240
[c000000baffcfcd0] [c0000000003dd334] event_function+0xc4/0x140
[c000000baffcfd20] [c0000000003d855c] remote_function+0x7c/0xa0
[c000000baffcfd50] [c00000000026c394] flush_smp_call_function_queue+0xd4/0x300
[c000000baffcfde0] [c000000000065b24] smp_ipi_demux_relaxed+0xa4/0x100
[c000000baffcfe20] [c0000000000cb2b0] xive_muxed_ipi_action+0x20/0x40
[c000000baffcfe40] [c000000000207c3c] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x8c/0x250
[c000000baffcfee0] [c000000000207e2c] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x2c/0xa0
[c000000baffcff10] [c000000000210a04] handle_percpu_irq+0x84/0xc0
[c000000baffcff40] [c000000000205f14] generic_handle_irq+0x54/0x80
[c000000baffcff60] [c000000000015740] __do_irq+0x90/0x1d0
[c000000baffcff90] [c000000000016990] __do_IRQ+0xc0/0x140
[c0000009732f3940] [c000000bafceaca8] 0xc000000bafceaca8
[c0000009732f39d0] [c000000000016b78] do_IRQ+0x168/0x1c0
[c0000009732f3a00] [c0000000000090c8] hardware_interrupt_common_virt+0x218/0x220
This means that there is no PMC overflown among the active events
in the PMU, but there is a PMU pending in Paca. The function
"any_pmc_overflown" checks the PMCs on active events in
cpuhw->n_events. Code snippet:
<<>>
if (any_pmc_overflown(cpuhw))
clear_pmi_irq_pending();
else
WARN_ON(pmi_irq_pending());
<<>>
Here the PMC overflown is not from active event. Example: When we do
perf record, default cycles and instructions will be running on PMC6
and PMC5 respectively. It could happen that overflowed event is currently
not active and pending PMI is for the inactive event. Debug logs from
trace_printk:
<<>>
any_pmc_overflown: idx is 5: pmc value is 0xd9a
power_pmu_disable: PMC1: 0x0, PMC2: 0x0, PMC3: 0x0, PMC4: 0x0, PMC5: 0xd9a, PMC6: 0x80002011
<<>>
Here active PMC (from idx) is PMC5 , but overflown PMC is PMC6(0x80002011).
When we handle PMI interrupt for such cases, if the PMC overflown is
from inactive event, it will be ignored. Reference commit:
commit bc09c219b2e6 ("powerpc/perf: Fix finding overflowed PMC in interrupt")
Patch addresses two changes:
1) Fix 1 : Removal of warning ( WARN_ON(pmi_irq_pending()); )
We were printing warning if no PMC is found overflown among active PMU
events, but PMI pending in PACA. But this could happen in cases where
PMC overflown is not in active PMC. An inactive event could have caused
the overflow. Hence the warning is not needed. To know pending PMI is
from an inactive event, we need to loop through all PMC's which will
cause more SPR reads via mfspr and increase in context switch. Also in
existing function: perf_event_interrupt, already we ignore PMI's
overflown when it is from an inactive PMC.
2) Fix 2: optimization in clearing pending PMI.
Currently we check for any active PMC overflown before clearing PMI
pending in Paca. This is causing additional SP
---truncated---
📍 영향받는 시스템
PowerPC 아키텍처에서 동작하는 Linux 커널 (수정 이전 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
로컬 사용자가 성능 측정 작업을 반복 실행하여 경고 로그를 유발하고 약간의 성능 저하를 일으킬 수 있음 (직접적인 권한 상승이나 원격 공격 경로는 확인되지 않음)
🛡️ 대응 방법
패치가 적용된 최신 Linux 커널로 업데이트하거나 배포판 보안 업데이트를 설치
🔧 검증 코드
커널 버전이 패치가 반영된 안정 버전 이상인지 배포판 보안 공지와 대조하고, powerpc 출력이 나오면 해당 아키텍처 시스템이므로 업데이트 대상임을 확인
uname -r && grep -i powerpc /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null | head -1