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author | Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> | 2020-07-06 23:49:10 +0300 |
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committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2020-07-08 12:38:50 +0300 |
commit | ce3614daabea8a2d01c1dd17ae41d1ec5e5ae7db (patch) | |
tree | 30ce69ad5ac5b6ec0cc20a50120885d35097f396 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | dbfb089d360b1cc623c51a2c7cf9b99eff78e0e7 (diff) | |
download | linux-ce3614daabea8a2d01c1dd17ae41d1ec5e5ae7db.tar.xz |
sched: Fix unreliable rseq cpu_id for new tasks
While integrating rseq into glibc and replacing glibc's sched_getcpu
implementation with rseq, glibc's tests discovered an issue with
incorrect __rseq_abi.cpu_id field value right after the first time
a newly created process issues sched_setaffinity.
For the records, it triggers after building glibc and running tests, and
then issuing:
for x in {1..2000} ; do posix/tst-affinity-static & done
and shows up as:
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
This is caused by the scheduler invoking __set_task_cpu() directly from
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task(), thus bypassing rseq_migrate() which
is done by set_task_cpu().
Add the missing rseq_migrate() to both functions. The only other direct
use of __set_task_cpu() is done by init_idle(), which does not involve a
user-space task.
Based on my testing with the glibc test-case, just adding rseq_migrate()
to wake_up_new_task() is sufficient to fix the observed issue. Also add
it to sched_fork() to keep things consistent.
The reason why this never triggered so far with the rseq/basic_test
selftest is unclear.
The current use of sched_getcpu(3) does not typically require it to be
always accurate. However, use of the __rseq_abi.cpu_id field within rseq
critical sections requires it to be accurate. If it is not accurate, it
can cause corruption in the per-cpu data targeted by rseq critical
sections in user-space.
Reported-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707201505.2632-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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