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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2020-12-06 22:40:07 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-07-27 20:57:44 +0200
commitbb7262b295472eb6858b5c49893954794027cd84 (patch)
treec37be8ec10e2c78ec7cde26bbf1177b229143b52 /kernel/time
parentff1176468d368232b684f75e82563369208bc371 (diff)
timers: Move clearing of base::timer_running under base:: Lock
syzbot reported KCSAN data races vs. timer_base::timer_running being set to NULL without holding base::lock in expire_timers(). This looks innocent and most reads are clearly not problematic, but Frederic identified an issue which is: int data = 0; void timer_func(struct timer_list *t) { data = 1; } CPU 0 CPU 1 ------------------------------ -------------------------- base = lock_timer_base(timer, &flags); raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock); if (base->running_timer != timer) call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk); ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true); base->running_timer = NULL; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); raw_spin_lock(&base->lock); x = data; If the timer has previously executed on CPU 1 and then CPU 0 can observe base->running_timer == NULL and returns, assuming the timer has completed, but it's not guaranteed on all architectures. The comment for del_timer_sync() makes that guarantee. Moving the assignment under base->lock prevents this. For non-RT kernel it's performance wise completely irrelevant whether the store happens before or after taking the lock. For an RT kernel moving the store under the lock requires an extra unlock/lock pair in the case that there is a waiter for the timer, but that's not the end of the world. Reported-by: syzbot+aa7c2385d46c5eba0b89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+abea4558531bae1ba9fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 030dcdd197d7 ("timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfea7gw8.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timer.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 9eb11c2209e5..e3d2c23c413d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1265,8 +1265,10 @@ static inline void timer_base_unlock_expiry(struct timer_base *base)
static void timer_sync_wait_running(struct timer_base *base)
{
if (atomic_read(&base->timer_waiters)) {
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
spin_unlock(&base->expiry_lock);
spin_lock(&base->expiry_lock);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
}
}
@@ -1457,14 +1459,14 @@ static void expire_timers(struct timer_base *base, struct hlist_head *head)
if (timer->flags & TIMER_IRQSAFE) {
raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock);
call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk);
- base->running_timer = NULL;
raw_spin_lock(&base->lock);
+ base->running_timer = NULL;
} else {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
base->running_timer = NULL;
timer_sync_wait_running(base);
- raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
}
}
}