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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-07-20 17:20:21 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-07-22 10:22:00 +0200
commitd136122f58458479fd8926020ba2937de61d7f65 (patch)
treeab3373ed22a5a5801e4570aca5941bab4dc59921 /kernel/sched
parentba47d845d715a010f7b51f6f89bae32845e6acb7 (diff)
sched: Fix race against ptrace_freeze_trace()
There is apparently one site that violates the rule that only current and ttwu() will modify task->state, namely ptrace_{,un}freeze_traced() will change task->state for a remote task. Oleg explains: "TASK_TRACED/TASK_STOPPED was always protected by siglock. In particular, ttwu(__TASK_TRACED) must be always called with siglock held. That is why ptrace_freeze_traced() assumes it can safely do s/TASK_TRACED/__TASK_TRACED/ under spin_lock(siglock)." This breaks the ordering scheme introduced by commit: dbfb089d360b ("sched: Fix loadavg accounting race") Specifically, the reload not matching no longer implies we don't have to block. Simply things by noting that what we need is a LOAD->STORE ordering and this can be provided by a control dependency. So replace: prev_state = prev->state; raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock); smp_mb__after_spinlock(); /* SMP-MB */ if (... && prev_state && prev_state == prev->state) deactivate_task(); with: prev_state = prev->state; if (... && prev_state) /* CTRL-DEP */ deactivate_task(); Since that already implies the 'prev->state' load must be complete before allowing the 'prev->on_rq = 0' store to become visible. Fixes: dbfb089d360b ("sched: Fix loadavg accounting race") Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Tested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c24
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e15543cb8481..5dece9b34e25 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4119,9 +4119,6 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
local_irq_disable();
rcu_note_context_switch(preempt);
- /* See deactivate_task() below. */
- prev_state = prev->state;
-
/*
* Make sure that signal_pending_state()->signal_pending() below
* can't be reordered with __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
@@ -4145,11 +4142,16 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
update_rq_clock(rq);
switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;
+
/*
- * We must re-load prev->state in case ttwu_remote() changed it
- * before we acquired rq->lock.
+ * We must load prev->state once (task_struct::state is volatile), such
+ * that:
+ *
+ * - we form a control dependency vs deactivate_task() below.
+ * - ptrace_{,un}freeze_traced() can change ->state underneath us.
*/
- if (!preempt && prev_state && prev_state == prev->state) {
+ prev_state = prev->state;
+ if (!preempt && prev_state) {
if (signal_pending_state(prev_state, prev)) {
prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
} else {
@@ -4163,10 +4165,12 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
/*
* __schedule() ttwu()
- * prev_state = prev->state; if (READ_ONCE(p->on_rq) && ...)
- * LOCK rq->lock goto out;
- * smp_mb__after_spinlock(); smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep();
- * p->on_rq = 0; p->state = TASK_WAKING;
+ * prev_state = prev->state; if (p->on_rq && ...)
+ * if (prev_state) goto out;
+ * p->on_rq = 0; smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep();
+ * p->state = TASK_WAKING
+ *
+ * Where __schedule() and ttwu() have matching control dependencies.
*
* After this, schedule() must not care about p->state any more.
*/