linux/kernel
Zqiang a4fcfbee8f rcu-tasks: Handle queue-shrink/callback-enqueue race condition
The rcu_tasks_need_gpcb() determines whether or not: (1) There are
callbacks needing another grace period, (2) There are callbacks ready
to be invoked, and (3) It would be a good time to shrink back down to a
single-CPU callback list.  This third case is interesting because some
other CPU might be adding new callbacks, which might suddenly make this
a very bad time to be shrinking.

This is currently handled by requiring call_rcu_tasks_generic() to
enqueue callbacks under the protection of rcu_read_lock() and requiring
rcu_tasks_need_gpcb() to wait for an RCU grace period to elapse before
finalizing the transition.  This works well in practice.

Unfortunately, the current code assumes that a grace period whose end is
detected by the poll_state_synchronize_rcu() in the second "if" condition
actually ended before the earlier code counted the callbacks queued on
CPUs other than CPU 0 (local variable "ncbsnz").  Given the current code,
it is possible that a long-delayed call_rcu_tasks_generic() invocation
will queue a callback on a non-zero CPU after these CPUs have had their
callbacks counted and zero has been stored to ncbsnz.  Such a callback
would trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in the second "if" statement.

To see this, consider the following sequence of events:

o	CPU 0 invokes rcu_tasks_one_gp(), and counts fewer than
	rcu_task_collapse_lim callbacks.  It sees at least one
	callback queued on some other CPU, thus setting ncbsnz
	to a non-zero value.

o	CPU 1 invokes call_rcu_tasks_generic() and loads 42 from
	->percpu_enqueue_lim.  It therefore decides to enqueue its
	callback onto CPU 1's callback list, but is delayed.

o	CPU 0 sees the rcu_task_cb_adjust is non-zero and that the number
	of callbacks does not exceed rcu_task_collapse_lim.  It therefore
	checks percpu_enqueue_lim, and sees that its value is greater
	than the value one.  CPU 0 therefore  starts the shift back
	to a single callback list.  It sets ->percpu_enqueue_lim to 1,
	but CPU 1 has already read the old value of 42.  It also gets
	a grace-period state value from get_state_synchronize_rcu().

o	CPU 0 sees that ncbsnz is non-zero in its second "if" statement,
	so it declines to finalize the shrink operation.

o	CPU 0 again invokes rcu_tasks_one_gp(), and counts fewer than
	rcu_task_collapse_lim callbacks.  It also sees that there are
	no callback queued on any other CPU, and thus sets ncbsnz to zero.

o	CPU 1 resumes execution and enqueues its callback onto its own
	list.  This invalidates the value of ncbsnz.

o	CPU 0 sees the rcu_task_cb_adjust is non-zero and that the number
	of callbacks does not exceed rcu_task_collapse_lim.  It therefore
	checks percpu_enqueue_lim, but sees that its value is already
	unity.	It therefore does not get a new grace-period state value.

o	CPU 0 sees that rcu_task_cb_adjust is non-zero, ncbsnz is zero,
	and that poll_state_synchronize_rcu() says that the grace period
	has completed.  it therefore finalizes the shrink operation,
	setting ->percpu_dequeue_lim to the value one.

o	CPU 0 does a debug check, scanning the other CPUs' callback lists.
	It sees that CPU 1's list has a callback, so it (rightly)
	triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE().  After all, the new value of
	->percpu_dequeue_lim says to not bother looking at CPU 1's
	callback list, which means that this callback will never be
	invoked.  This can result in hangs and maybe even OOMs.

Based on long experience with rcutorture, this is an extremely
low-probability race condition, but it really can happen, especially in
preemptible kernels or within guest OSes.

This commit therefore checks for completion of the grace period
before counting callbacks.  With this change, in the above failure
scenario CPU 0 would know not to prematurely end the shrink operation
because the grace period would not have completed before the count
operation started.

[ paulmck: Adjust grace-period end rather than adding RCU reader. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid spurious WARN_ON_ONCE() with ->percpu_dequeue_lim check. ]

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-01-03 17:52:17 -08:00
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bpf Including fixes from bpf, netfilter and can. 2022-12-21 08:41:32 -08:00
cgroup MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-13 19:29:45 -08:00
configs mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED 2022-12-01 00:09:20 +01:00
debug kdb: use srcu console list iterator 2022-12-02 11:25:00 +01:00
dma dma-mapping: reject GFP_COMP for noncoherent allocations 2022-12-21 08:45:38 +01:00
entry entry: kmsan: introduce kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() 2022-10-03 14:03:25 -07:00
events New Feature: 2022-12-17 14:06:53 -06:00
futex futex: Resend potentially swallowed owner death notification 2022-12-02 12:20:24 +01:00
gcov gcov: add support for checksum field 2022-12-21 14:31:52 -08:00
irq genirq/msi: Return MSI_XA_DOMAIN_SIZE as the maximum MSI index when no domain is present 2022-12-16 14:04:04 +00:00
kcsan hardening updates for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-14 12:20:00 -08:00
livepatch modules changes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-13 14:05:39 -08:00
locking MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-13 19:29:45 -08:00
module powerpc updates for 6.2 2022-12-19 07:13:33 -06:00
power PM: sleep: Refine error message in try_to_freeze_tasks() 2022-12-06 12:04:34 +01:00
printk Merge branch 'rework/console-list-lock' into for-linus 2022-12-08 11:46:56 +01:00
rcu rcu-tasks: Handle queue-shrink/callback-enqueue race condition 2023-01-03 17:52:17 -08:00
sched hardening updates for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-14 12:20:00 -08:00
time Random number generator updates for Linux 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 16:22:22 -08:00
trace Tracing fix for 6.2: 2022-12-21 19:03:42 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t() 2022-11-30 16:13:18 -08:00
async.c Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used" 2022-02-03 11:20:34 -08:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark 2022-08-22 18:50:06 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: use fsnotify group lock helpers 2022-04-25 14:37:28 +02:00
audit_watch.c audit_init_parent(): constify path 2022-09-01 17:39:30 -04:00
audit.c audit: use time_after to compare time 2022-08-29 19:47:03 -04:00
audit.h audit: remove selinux_audit_rule_update() declaration 2022-09-07 11:30:15 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit/stable-5.17 PR 20220110 2022-01-11 13:08:21 -08:00
auditsc.c audit: unify audit_filter_{uring(), inode_name(), syscall()} 2022-10-17 14:24:42 -04:00
backtracetest.c
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capability.c caps: use type safe idmapping helpers 2022-10-26 10:02:39 +02:00
cfi.c cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi 2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
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cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Do not bail-out in DYING/STARTING sections 2022-12-02 12:43:02 +01:00
crash_core.c vmcoreinfo: warn if we exceed vmcoreinfo data size 2022-11-30 16:13:17 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred() 2022-11-01 10:04:52 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: support re-entrance detection of thrashing accounting 2022-09-26 19:46:07 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads 2022-12-16 12:26:57 -08:00
extable.c context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
fail_function.c fail_function: fix wrong use of fei_attr_remove() 2022-09-11 21:55:11 -07:00
fork.c New Feature: 2022-12-17 14:06:53 -06:00
freezer.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
groups.c security: Add LSM hook to setgroups() syscall 2022-07-15 18:21:49 +00:00
hung_task.c sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons 2022-09-30 16:50:39 +02:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c irq_work: use kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() record callstack 2022-04-15 14:49:55 -07:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Prevent key->enabled int overflow 2022-12-01 15:53:05 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] 2022-11-12 18:47:36 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Remove unneeded semicolon 2022-11-18 12:56:40 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.h kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
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kcov.c kcov: kmsan: unpoison area->list in kcov_remote_area_put() 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: remove the unneeded result variable 2022-11-18 13:55:07 -08:00
kexec_elf.c
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kexec_internal.h panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
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kheaders.c
kmod.c
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ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c: export kernel cpu byteorder 2022-11-10 19:07:31 +01:00
kthread.c signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop() 2022-10-09 16:01:59 -07:00
latencytop.c latencytop: use the last element of latency_record of system 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
Makefile kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-23 12:00:24 -08:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifier: repair slips in kernel-doc comments 2022-11-30 19:32:30 +01:00
nsproxy.c fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm 2022-10-25 15:15:52 -07:00
padata.c Kbuild updates for v6.2 2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
panic.c kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-23 12:00:24 -08:00
params.c Driver Core changes for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-16 03:54:54 -08:00
pid_namespace.c rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes() 2023-01-03 17:52:16 -08:00
pid.c gfs2: Add glockfd debugfs file 2022-06-29 13:07:16 +02:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: simplify duplicated code in profile_setup() 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
ptrace.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot: Add SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE mode 2022-10-04 15:59:36 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c relay: fix type mismatch when allocating memory in relay_create_buf() 2022-12-11 19:30:19 -08:00
resource_kunit.c
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rseq.c rseq: Use pr_warn_once() when deprecated/unknown ABI flags are encountered 2022-11-14 09:58:32 +01:00
scftorture.c scftorture: Fix distribution of short handler delays 2022-04-11 17:07:29 -07:00
scs.c scs: add support for dynamic shadow call stacks 2022-11-09 18:06:35 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Add wait_killable semantic to seccomp user notifier 2022-05-03 14:11:58 -07:00
signal.c hardening updates for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-14 12:20:00 -08:00
smp.c bitmap patches for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-10 12:49:34 -07:00
smpboot.c smpboot: use atomic_try_cmpxchg in cpu_wait_death and cpu_report_death 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
stackleak.c stackleak: add on/off stack variants 2022-05-08 01:33:09 -07:00
stacktrace.c uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
static_call_inline.c static_call: Add call depth tracking support 2022-10-17 16:41:16 +02:00
static_call.c static_call: Don't make __static_call_return0 static 2022-04-05 09:59:38 +02:00
stop_machine.c Scheduler changes in this cycle were: 2022-05-24 11:11:13 -07:00
sys_ni.c kernel/sys_ni: add compat entry for fadvise64_64 2022-08-20 15:17:45 -07:00
sys.c Random number generator updates for Linux 6.1-rc1. 2022-10-10 10:41:21 -07:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: use SYSCTL_{ZERO/ONE_HUNDRED} instead of i_{zero/one_hundred} 2022-09-08 16:56:45 -07:00
sysctl.c MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-13 19:29:45 -08:00
task_work.c task_work: use try_cmpxchg in task_work_add, task_work_cancel_match and task_work_run 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
torture.c torture: Wake up kthreads after storing task_struct pointer 2022-02-01 17:24:39 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Optimize the critical region of mutex_lock in tracepoint_module_coming() 2022-09-26 13:01:18 -04:00
tsacct.c taskstats: version 12 with thread group and exe info 2022-04-29 14:38:03 -07:00
ucount.c ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values 2022-05-18 18:24:57 -05:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
up.c
user_namespace.c ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values 2022-10-09 16:24:05 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd 2022-11-30 20:16:49 -04:00
usermode_driver.c blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount() 2022-05-19 23:25:47 -04:00
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: Fix hostname polling 2022-10-23 12:01:01 -07:00
utsname.c
watch_queue.c This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing all that 2022-08-02 19:24:24 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing" 2022-06-23 18:41:40 +02:00
watchdog.c powerpc updates for 6.0 2022-08-06 16:38:17 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c workqueue: Make queue_rcu_work() use call_rcu_hurry() 2022-11-30 13:17:05 -08:00