The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: d136122f58458479fd8926020ba2937de61d7f65 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d136122f58458479fd8926020ba2937de61d7f65 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:20:21 +02:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:22:00 +02:00 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index e15543c..5dece9b 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. */
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