Re: [PATCH] blk-rq-qos: fix crash on rq_qos_wait vs. rq_qos_wake_function race

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On 10/15/24 11:59 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
> 
> We're seeing crashes from rq_qos_wake_function that look like this:
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffafe180a40084
>   #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
>   #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
>   PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 10027c067 PMD 10115d067 PTE 0
>   Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
>   CPU: 17 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/17 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-00013-geca631b8fe80 #11
>   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
>   RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1d/0x40
>   Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 9c 41 5c fa 65 ff 05 62 97 30 4c 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 75 0a 4c 89 e0 41 5c c3 cc cc cc cc 89 c6 e8 2c 0b 00
>   RSP: 0018:ffffafe180580ca0 EFLAGS: 00010046
>   RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffafe180a3f7a8 RCX: 0000000000000011
>   RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffafe180a40084
>   RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000001e7240 R09: 0000000000000011
>   R10: 0000000000000028 R11: 0000000000000888 R12: 0000000000000002
>   R13: ffffafe180a40084 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
>   FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9aaf1f280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>   CR2: ffffafe180a40084 CR3: 000000010e428002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
>   DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>   DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>   PKRU: 55555554
>   Call Trace:
>    <IRQ>
>    try_to_wake_up+0x5a/0x6a0
>    rq_qos_wake_function+0x71/0x80
>    __wake_up_common+0x75/0xa0
>    __wake_up+0x36/0x60
>    scale_up.part.0+0x50/0x110
>    wb_timer_fn+0x227/0x450
>    ...
> 
> So rq_qos_wake_function() calls wake_up_process(data->task), which calls
> try_to_wake_up(), which faults in raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock).
> 
> p comes from data->task, and data comes from the waitqueue entry, which
> is stored on the waiter's stack in rq_qos_wait(). Analyzing the core
> dump with drgn, I found that the waiter had already woken up and moved
> on to a completely unrelated code path, clobbering what was previously
> data->task. Meanwhile, the waker was passing the clobbered garbage in
> data->task to wake_up_process(), leading to the crash.
> 
> What's happening is that in between rq_qos_wake_function() deleting the
> waitqueue entry and calling wake_up_process(), rq_qos_wait() is finding
> that it already got a token and returning. The race looks like this:
> 
> rq_qos_wait()                           rq_qos_wake_function()
> ==============================================================
> prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
>                                         data->got_token = true;
>                                         list_del_init(&curr->entry);
> if (data.got_token)
>         break;
> finish_wait(&rqw->wait, &data.wq);
>   ^- returns immediately because
>      list_empty_careful(&wq_entry->entry)
>      is true
> ... return, go do something else ...
>                                         wake_up_process(data->task)
>                                           (NO LONGER VALID!)-^
> 
> Normally, finish_wait() is supposed to synchronize against the waker.
> But, as noted above, it is returning immediately because the waitqueue
> entry has already been removed from the waitqueue.
> 
> The bug is that rq_qos_wake_function() is accessing the waitqueue entry
> AFTER deleting it. Note that autoremove_wake_function() wakes the waiter
> and THEN deletes the waitqueue entry, which is the proper order.
> 
> Fix it by swapping the order. We also need to use
> list_del_init_careful() to match the list_empty_careful() in
> finish_wait().

Thanks Omar, nice debugging!

-- 
Jens Axboe





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