[v10,1/2] kernel/fork: beware of __put_task_struct calling context
Commit Message
Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping
locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context.
One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is
called in a interrupt context:
CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W ---------
Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba
? stack_trace_save+0x4b/0x70
? save_trace+0x55/0x150
mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400
mark_usage+0x11d/0x140
__lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930
lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210
? refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
? trace_lock_acquire+0x38/0x140
? lock_acquire+0x30/0x80
? refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0
? refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0
? inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340
kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560
inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340
? switched_from_dl+0x2d0/0x2d0
__run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130
hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0x20
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5
Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using
call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since
in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context,
the code would become more complex because we would need to put the
work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we
allocate a new task_struct.
The issue is reproducible with stress-ng:
while true; do
stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
--sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
done
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Hu Chunyu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/fork.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
@@ -118,10 +118,36 @@ static inline struct task_struct *get_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
}
extern void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t);
+extern void __put_task_struct_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp);
static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
{
- if (refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage))
+ if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * under PREEMPT_RT, we can't call put_task_struct
+ * in atomic context because it will indirectly
+ * acquire sleeping locks.
+ *
+ * call_rcu() will schedule delayed_put_task_struct_rcu()
+ * to be called in process context.
+ *
+ * __put_task_struct() is called when
+ * refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage) succeeds.
+ *
+ * This means that it can't "conflict" with
+ * put_task_struct_rcu_user() which abuses ->rcu the same
+ * way; rcu_users has a reference so task->usage can't be
+ * zero after rcu_users 1 -> 0 transition.
+ *
+ * delayed_free_task() also uses ->rcu, but it is only called
+ * when it fails to fork a process. Therefore, there is no
+ * way it can conflict with put_task_struct().
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !preemptible())
+ call_rcu(&t->rcu, __put_task_struct_rcu_cb);
+ else
__put_task_struct(t);
}
@@ -988,6 +988,14 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
+void __put_task_struct_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp)
+{
+ struct task_struct *task = container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu);
+
+ __put_task_struct(task);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct_rcu_cb);
+
void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
/*