In QEMU v5.1.0, the CPU hotplug register block misbehaves: the negotiation
protocol is (effectively) broken such that it suggests that switching from
the legacy interface to the modern interface works, but in reality the
switch never happens. The symptom has been witnessed when using TCG
acceleration; KVM seems to mask the issue. The issue persists with the
following (latest) stable QEMU releases: v5.2.0, v6.2.0, v7.2.0. Currently
there is no stable release that addresses the problem.
The QEMU bug confuses the Present and Possible counting in function
PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization(), in
"OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c". OVMF ends up with Present=0
Possible=1. This in turn further confuses MpInitLib in UefiCpuPkg (hence
firmware-time multiprocessing will be broken). Worse, CPU hot(un)plug with
SMI will be summarily broken in OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm, which (considering
the privilege level of SMM) is not that great.
Detect the issue in PlatformCpuCountBugCheck(), and print an error message
and *hang* if the issue is present.
Users willing to take risks can override the hang with the experimental
QEMU command line option
-fw_cfg name=opt/org.tianocore/X-Cpuhp-Bugcheck-Override,string=yes
(The "-fw_cfg" QEMU option itself is not experimental; its above argument,
as far it concerns the firmware, is experimental.)
The problem was originally reported by Ard [0]. We analyzed it at [1] and
[2]. A QEMU patch was sent at [3]; now merged as commit dab30fbef389
("acpi: cpuhp: fix guest-visible maximum access size to the legacy reg
block", 2023-01-08), to be included in QEMU v8.0.0.
[0] https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4234#c2
[1] https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4234#c3
[2] IO port write width clamping differs between TCG and KVM
http://mid.mail-archive.com/aaedee84-d3ed-a4f9-21e7-d221a28d1683@redhat.com
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-01/msg00199.html
[3] acpi: cpuhp: fix guest-visible maximum access size to the legacy reg block
http://mid.mail-archive.com/20230104090138.214862-1-lersek@redhat.com
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-01/msg00278.html
NOTE: PlatformInitLib is used in the following platform DSCs:
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/AmdSevX64.dsc
OvmfPkg/CloudHv/CloudHvX64.dsc
OvmfPkg/IntelTdx/IntelTdxX64.dsc
OvmfPkg/Microvm/MicrovmX64.dsc
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc
OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc
but I can only test this change with the last three platforms, running on
QEMU.
Test results:
TCG QEMU OVMF override result
patched patched
--- ------- ------- -------- --------------------------------------
0 0 0 0 CPU counts OK (KVM masks the QEMU bug)
0 0 1 0 CPU counts OK (KVM masks the QEMU bug)
0 1 0 0 CPU counts OK (QEMU fix, but KVM masks
the QEMU bug anyway)
0 1 1 0 CPU counts OK (QEMU fix, but KVM masks
the QEMU bug anyway)
1 0 0 0 boot with broken CPU counts (original
QEMU bug)
1 0 1 0 broken CPU count caught (boot hangs)
1 0 1 1 broken CPU count caught, bug check
overridden, boot continues
1 1 0 0 CPU counts OK (QEMU fix)
1 1 1 0 CPU counts OK (QEMU fix)
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianoc...@kernel.org>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>
Cc: Erdem Aktas <erdemak...@google.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen....@intel.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Brown <mc...@ipxe.org>
Cc: Min Xu <min.m...@intel.com>
Cc: Oliver Steffen <ostef...@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.bo...@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
---
Notes:
v3:
- reimplement the bug check in the factored out function
PlatformCpuCountBugCheck()
- add override [Ard, Gerd, Michael]
- assert "0 < Present == BootCpuCount <= Possible" whenever
PlatformCpuCountBugCheck() returns
- update commit message
- update test matrix in commit message
- (re)test all "OVMF patched = 1" cases (sigh)
v2:
- V1 was at
<20230104151234.286030-1-lersek@redhat.com">http://mid.mail-archive.com/20230104151234.286030-1-lersek@redhat.com>.
- Repo: <https://pagure.io/lersek/edk2.git>, branch:
cpuhp-reg-catch-4250-v2
- Remove KVM as a proposed workaround from the error message, because in
the QEMU discussion, we had found that the KVM accelerator's behavior
in QEMU (masking the problem) was not right, and that a fix for that
had been in progress for quite some time.
- Add the QEMU commit hash to the commit message, the code comment, and
the error message.
- Pick up Gerd's R-b; add Oliver to the Cc list.
OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 87 insertions(+)
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
index d1be5c2d7970..9fee6e481038 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
#include <Library/PlatformInitLib.h>
+#define CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE \
+ "opt/org.tianocore/X-Cpuhp-Bugcheck-Override"
+
VOID
EFIAPI
PlatformAddIoMemoryBaseSizeHob (
@@ -437,6 +440,87 @@ PlatformCpuCountBugCheck (
{
ASSERT (*BootCpuCount > 0);
+ //
+ // Sanity check: we need at least 1 present CPU (CPU#0 is always present).
+ //
+ // The legacy-to-modern switching of the CPU hotplug register block got
broken
+ // (for TCG) in QEMU v5.1.0. Refer to "IO port write width clamping differs
+ // between TCG and KVM" at
+ //
<http://mid.mail-archive.com/aaedee84-d3ed-a4f9-21e7-d221a28d1683@redhat.com>
+ // or at
+ // <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-01/msg00199.html>.
+ //
+ // QEMU received the fix in commit dab30fbef389 ("acpi: cpuhp: fix
+ // guest-visible maximum access size to the legacy reg block", 2023-01-08),
to
+ // be included in QEMU v8.0.0.
+ //
+ // If we're affected by this QEMU bug, then we must not continue: it confuses
+ // the multiprocessing in UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib, and breaks CPU
+ // hot(un)plug with SMI in OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm.
+ //
+ if (*Present == 0) {
+ UINTN Idx;
+ STATIC CONST CHAR8 *CONST Message[] = {
+ "Broken CPU hotplug register block found. Update QEMU to version 8+, or",
+ "to a stable release with commit dab30fbef389 backported. Refer to",
+ "<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250>.",
+ "Consequences of the QEMU bug may include, but are not limited to:",
+ "- all firmware logic, dependent on the CPU hotplug register block,",
+ " being confused, for example, multiprocessing-related logic;",
+ "- guest OS data loss, including filesystem corruption, due to crash or",
+ " hang during ACPI S3 resume;",
+ "- SMM privilege escalation, by a malicious guest OS or 3rd partty UEFI",
+ " agent, against the platform firmware.",
+ "These symptoms need not necessarily be limited to the QEMU user",
+ "attempting to hot(un)plug a CPU.",
+ "The firmware will now stop (hang) deliberately, in order to prevent
the",
+ "above symptoms.",
+ "You can forcibly override the hang, *at your own risk*, with the",
+ "following *experimental* QEMU command line option:",
+ " -fw_cfg name=" CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE ",string=yes",
+ "Please only report such bugs that you can reproduce *without* the",
+ "override.",
+ };
+ RETURN_STATUS ParseStatus;
+ BOOLEAN Override;
+
+ DEBUG ((
+ DEBUG_ERROR,
+ "%a: Present=%u Possible=%u\n",
+ __FUNCTION__,
+ *Present,
+ *Possible
+ ));
+ for (Idx = 0; Idx < ARRAY_SIZE (Message); ++Idx) {
+ DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "%a: %a\n", __FUNCTION__, Message[Idx]));
+ }
+
+ ParseStatus = QemuFwCfgParseBool (
+ CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE,
+ &Override
+ );
+ if (!RETURN_ERROR (ParseStatus) && Override) {
+ DEBUG ((
+ DEBUG_WARN,
+ "%a: \"%a\" active. You've been warned.\n",
+ __FUNCTION__,
+ CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE
+ ));
+ //
+ // The bug is in QEMU v5.1.0+, where we're not affected by the QEMU v2.7
+ // reset bug, so BootCpuCount from fw_cfg is reliable. Assume a fully
+ // populated topology, like when the modern CPU hotplug interface is
+ // unavailable.
+ //
+ *Present = *BootCpuCount;
+ *Possible = *BootCpuCount;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ ASSERT (FALSE);
+ CpuDeadLoop ();
+ }
+
//
// Sanity check: fw_cfg and the modern CPU hotplug interface should expose
the
// same boot CPU count.
@@ -596,6 +680,9 @@ PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization (
} while (Selected > 0);
PlatformCpuCountBugCheck (&BootCpuCount, &Present, &Possible);
+ ASSERT (Present > 0);
+ ASSERT (Present <= Possible);
+ ASSERT (BootCpuCount == Present);
MaxCpuCount = Possible;
}
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