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.
Link: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-July/115816.html
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neel Natu <neelnatu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.18+
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ca5db40392d4..86a855bd4d90 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2962,6 +2962,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
* Silence PROVE_RCU.
*/
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+ rseq_migrate(p);
/*
* We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
* so use __set_task_cpu().
@@ -3026,6 +3027,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
* as we're not fully set-up yet.
*/
p->recent_used_cpu = task_cpu(p);
+ rseq_migrate(p);
__set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, task_cpu(p), SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0));
#endif
rq = __task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
--
2.17.1
