The following commit has been merged into the timers/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: 1a3402d93c73bf6bb4df6d7c2aac35abfc3c50e2 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1a3402d93c73bf6bb4df6d7c2aac35abfc3c50e2 Author: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 01:15:59 +02:00 Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:20:10 +02:00 posix-cpu-timers: Fix rearm racing against process tick Since the process wide cputime counter is started locklessly from posix_cpu_timer_rearm(), it can be concurrently stopped by operations on other timers from the same thread group, such as in the following unlucky scenario: CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- timer_settime(TIMER B) posix_cpu_timer_rearm(TIMER A) cpu_clock_sample_group() (pct->timers_active already true) handle_posix_cpu_timers() check_process_timers() stop_process_timers() pct->timers_active = false arm_timer(TIMER A) tick -> run_posix_cpu_timers() // sees !pct->timers_active, ignore // our TIMER A Fix this with simply locking process wide cputime counting start and timer arm in the same block. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 60f2ceaa8111 ("posix-cpu-timers: Remove unnecessary locking around cpu_clock_sample_group") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 29a5e54..517be7f 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -991,6 +991,11 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer) if (!p) goto out; + /* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */ + sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags); + if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) + goto out; + /* * Fetch the current sample and update the timer's expiry time. */ @@ -1001,11 +1006,6 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer) bump_cpu_timer(timer, now); - /* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */ - sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags); - if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) - goto out; - /* * Now re-arm for the new expiry time. */