OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: catch QEMU's CPU hotplug reg block regression

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+tianocore@kernel.org>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@google.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Cc: Min Xu <min.m.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230119110131.91923-3-lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Hugely-appreciated-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
index d1be5c2d79705ee51f28aea052fdbdca1f106230..9fee6e481038647d0140a66eb331c568a1f63736 100644 (file)
--- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
 \r
 #include <Library/PlatformInitLib.h>\r
 \r
+#define CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE \\r
+  "opt/org.tianocore/X-Cpuhp-Bugcheck-Override"\r
+\r
 VOID\r
 EFIAPI\r
 PlatformAddIoMemoryBaseSizeHob (\r
@@ -437,6 +440,87 @@ PlatformCpuCountBugCheck (
 {\r
   ASSERT (*BootCpuCount > 0);\r
 \r
+  //\r
+  // Sanity check: we need at least 1 present CPU (CPU#0 is always present).\r
+  //\r
+  // The legacy-to-modern switching of the CPU hotplug register block got broken\r
+  // (for TCG) in QEMU v5.1.0. Refer to "IO port write width clamping differs\r
+  // between TCG and KVM" at\r
+  // <http://mid.mail-archive.com/aaedee84-d3ed-a4f9-21e7-d221a28d1683@redhat.com>\r
+  // or at\r
+  // <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-01/msg00199.html>.\r
+  //\r
+  // QEMU received the fix in commit dab30fbef389 ("acpi: cpuhp: fix\r
+  // guest-visible maximum access size to the legacy reg block", 2023-01-08), to\r
+  // be included in QEMU v8.0.0.\r
+  //\r
+  // If we're affected by this QEMU bug, then we must not continue: it confuses\r
+  // the multiprocessing in UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib, and breaks CPU\r
+  // hot(un)plug with SMI in OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm.\r
+  //\r
+  if (*Present == 0) {\r
+    UINTN                      Idx;\r
+    STATIC CONST CHAR8 *CONST  Message[] = {\r
+      "Broken CPU hotplug register block found. Update QEMU to version 8+, or",\r
+      "to a stable release with commit dab30fbef389 backported. Refer to",\r
+      "<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250>.",\r
+      "Consequences of the QEMU bug may include, but are not limited to:",\r
+      "- all firmware logic, dependent on the CPU hotplug register block,",\r
+      "  being confused, for example, multiprocessing-related logic;",\r
+      "- guest OS data loss, including filesystem corruption, due to crash or",\r
+      "  hang during ACPI S3 resume;",\r
+      "- SMM privilege escalation, by a malicious guest OS or 3rd partty UEFI",\r
+      "  agent, against the platform firmware.",\r
+      "These symptoms need not necessarily be limited to the QEMU user",\r
+      "attempting to hot(un)plug a CPU.",\r
+      "The firmware will now stop (hang) deliberately, in order to prevent the",\r
+      "above symptoms.",\r
+      "You can forcibly override the hang, *at your own risk*, with the",\r
+      "following *experimental* QEMU command line option:",\r
+      "  -fw_cfg name=" CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE ",string=yes",\r
+      "Please only report such bugs that you can reproduce *without* the",\r
+      "override.",\r
+    };\r
+    RETURN_STATUS              ParseStatus;\r
+    BOOLEAN                    Override;\r
+\r
+    DEBUG ((\r
+      DEBUG_ERROR,\r
+      "%a: Present=%u Possible=%u\n",\r
+      __FUNCTION__,\r
+      *Present,\r
+      *Possible\r
+      ));\r
+    for (Idx = 0; Idx < ARRAY_SIZE (Message); ++Idx) {\r
+      DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "%a: %a\n", __FUNCTION__, Message[Idx]));\r
+    }\r
+\r
+    ParseStatus = QemuFwCfgParseBool (\r
+                    CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE,\r
+                    &Override\r
+                    );\r
+    if (!RETURN_ERROR (ParseStatus) && Override) {\r
+      DEBUG ((\r
+        DEBUG_WARN,\r
+        "%a: \"%a\" active. You've been warned.\n",\r
+        __FUNCTION__,\r
+        CPUHP_BUGCHECK_OVERRIDE_FWCFG_FILE\r
+        ));\r
+      //\r
+      // The bug is in QEMU v5.1.0+, where we're not affected by the QEMU v2.7\r
+      // reset bug, so BootCpuCount from fw_cfg is reliable. Assume a fully\r
+      // populated topology, like when the modern CPU hotplug interface is\r
+      // unavailable.\r
+      //\r
+      *Present  = *BootCpuCount;\r
+      *Possible = *BootCpuCount;\r
+      return;\r
+    }\r
+\r
+    ASSERT (FALSE);\r
+    CpuDeadLoop ();\r
+  }\r
+\r
   //\r
   // Sanity check: fw_cfg and the modern CPU hotplug interface should expose the\r
   // same boot CPU count.\r
@@ -596,6 +680,9 @@ PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization (
       } while (Selected > 0);\r
 \r
       PlatformCpuCountBugCheck (&BootCpuCount, &Present, &Possible);\r
+      ASSERT (Present > 0);\r
+      ASSERT (Present <= Possible);\r
+      ASSERT (BootCpuCount == Present);\r
 \r
       MaxCpuCount = Possible;\r
     }\r