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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-09-14 15:44:37 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-09-16 16:32:37 -0700
commitba3a86e47232ad9f76160929f33ac9c64e4d0567 (patch)
treecce1240b835d574528f6e594c6b1348202763837 /kernel/rcu
parent4fe192dfbe5ba9780df699d411aa4f25ba24cf61 (diff)
rcu-tasks: Fix grace-period/unlock race in RCU Tasks Trace
The more intense grace-period processing resulting from the 50x RCU Tasks Trace grace-period speedups exposed the following race condition: o Task A running on CPU 0 executes rcu_read_lock_trace(), entering a read-side critical section. o When Task A eventually invokes rcu_read_unlock_trace() to exit its read-side critical section, this function notes that the ->trc_reader_special.s flag is zero and and therefore invoke wil set ->trc_reader_nesting to zero using WRITE_ONCE(). But before that happens... o The RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread running on some other CPU interrogates Task A, but this fails because this task is currently running. This kthread therefore sends an IPI to CPU 0. o CPU 0 receives the IPI, and thus invokes trc_read_check_handler(). Because Task A has not yet cleared its ->trc_reader_nesting counter, this function sees that Task A is still within its read-side critical section. This function therefore sets the ->trc_reader_nesting.b.need_qs flag, AKA the .need_qs flag. Except that Task A has already checked the .need_qs flag, which is part of the ->trc_reader_special.s flag. The .need_qs flag therefore remains set until Task A's next rcu_read_unlock_trace(). o Task A now invokes synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(), which cannot start a new grace period until the current grace period completes. And thus cannot return until after that time. But Task A's .need_qs flag is still set, which prevents the current grace period from completing. And because Task A is blocked, it will never execute rcu_read_unlock_trace() until its call to synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() returns. We are therefore deadlocked. This race is improbable, but 80 hours of rcutorture made it happen twice. The race was possible before the grace-period speedup, but roughly 50x less probable. Several thousand hours of rcutorture would have been necessary to have a reasonable chance of making this happen before this 50x speedup. This commit therefore eliminates this deadlock by setting ->trc_reader_nesting to a large negative number before checking the .need_qs and zeroing (or decrementing with respect to its initial value) ->trc_reader_nesting. For its part, the IPI handler's trc_read_check_handler() function adds a check for negative values, deferring evaluation of the task in this case. Taken together, these changes avoid this deadlock scenario. Fixes: 276c410448db ("rcu-tasks: Split ->trc_reader_need_end") Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.7.x Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tasks.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index a0eaed522277..e583a2d47374 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -830,6 +830,12 @@ static void trc_read_check_handler(void *t_in)
WRITE_ONCE(t->trc_reader_checked, true);
goto reset_ipi;
}
+ // If we are racing with an rcu_read_unlock_trace(), try again later.
+ if (unlikely(t->trc_reader_nesting < 0)) {
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_dec_and_test(&trc_n_readers_need_end)))
+ wake_up(&trc_wait);
+ goto reset_ipi;
+ }
WRITE_ONCE(t->trc_reader_checked, true);
// Get here if the task is in a read-side critical section. Set