sched: Fix race between ttwu() and task_rq_lock()
Thomas found that due to ttwu() changing a task's cpu without holding
the rq->lock, task_rq_lock() might end up locking the wrong rq.
Avoid this by serializing against TASK_WAKING.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1266241712.15770.420.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 4d78aef..404e201 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -941,16 +941,33 @@
#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW */
/*
+ * Check whether the task is waking, we use this to synchronize against
+ * ttwu() so that task_cpu() reports a stable number.
+ *
+ * We need to make an exception for PF_STARTING tasks because the fork
+ * path might require task_rq_lock() to work, eg. it can call
+ * set_cpus_allowed_ptr() from the cpuset clone_ns code.
+ */
+static inline int task_is_waking(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ return unlikely((p->state == TASK_WAKING) && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING));
+}
+
+/*
* __task_rq_lock - lock the runqueue a given task resides on.
* Must be called interrupts disabled.
*/
static inline struct rq *__task_rq_lock(struct task_struct *p)
__acquires(rq->lock)
{
+ struct rq *rq;
+
for (;;) {
- struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+ while (task_is_waking(p))
+ cpu_relax();
+ rq = task_rq(p);
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
- if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)))
+ if (likely(rq == task_rq(p) && !task_is_waking(p)))
return rq;
raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
}
@@ -967,10 +984,12 @@
struct rq *rq;
for (;;) {
+ while (task_is_waking(p))
+ cpu_relax();
local_irq_save(*flags);
rq = task_rq(p);
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
- if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)))
+ if (likely(rq == task_rq(p) && !task_is_waking(p)))
return rq;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, *flags);
}
@@ -2408,14 +2427,27 @@
__task_rq_unlock(rq);
cpu = select_task_rq(p, SD_BALANCE_WAKE, wake_flags);
- if (cpu != orig_cpu)
+ if (cpu != orig_cpu) {
+ /*
+ * Since we migrate the task without holding any rq->lock,
+ * we need to be careful with task_rq_lock(), since that
+ * might end up locking an invalid rq.
+ */
set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
+ }
- rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
+ rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
update_rq_clock(rq);
+ /*
+ * We migrated the task without holding either rq->lock, however
+ * since the task is not on the task list itself, nobody else
+ * will try and migrate the task, hence the rq should match the
+ * cpu we just moved it to.
+ */
+ WARN_ON(task_cpu(p) != cpu);
WARN_ON(p->state != TASK_WAKING);
- cpu = task_cpu(p);
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
schedstat_inc(rq, ttwu_count);
@@ -2647,7 +2679,7 @@
{
unsigned long flags;
struct rq *rq;
- int cpu __maybe_unused = get_cpu();
+ int cpu = get_cpu();
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/*
@@ -2663,7 +2695,13 @@
set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
#endif
- rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
+ /*
+ * Since the task is not on the rq and we still have TASK_WAKING set
+ * nobody else will migrate this task.
+ */
+ rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
+
BUG_ON(p->state != TASK_WAKING);
p->state = TASK_RUNNING;
update_rq_clock(rq);
@@ -7156,27 +7194,8 @@
struct rq *rq;
int ret = 0;
- /*
- * Since we rely on wake-ups to migrate sleeping tasks, don't change
- * the ->cpus_allowed mask from under waking tasks, which would be
- * possible when we change rq->lock in ttwu(), so synchronize against
- * TASK_WAKING to avoid that.
- *
- * Make an exception for freshly cloned tasks, since cpuset namespaces
- * might move the task about, we have to validate the target in
- * wake_up_new_task() anyway since the cpu might have gone away.
- */
-again:
- while (p->state == TASK_WAKING && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING))
- cpu_relax();
-
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
- if (p->state == TASK_WAKING && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING)) {
- task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
- goto again;
- }
-
if (!cpumask_intersects(new_mask, cpu_active_mask)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
