The patch titled Subject: mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct mmap_sem is on the hot path of kernel, and it very contended, but it is abused too. It is used to protect arg_start|end and evn_start|end when reading /proc/$PID/cmdline and /proc/$PID/environ, but it doesn't make sense since those proc files just expect to read 4 values atomically and not related to VM, they could be set to arbitrary values by C/R. And, the mmap_sem contention may cause unexpected issue like below: INFO: task ps:14018 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Tainted: G E 4.9.79-009.ali3000.alios7.x86_64 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ps D 0 14018 1 0x00000004 ffff885582f84000 ffff885e8682f000 ffff880972943000 ffff885ebf499bc0 ffff8828ee120000 ffffc900349bfca8 ffffffff817154d0 0000000000000040 00ffffff812f872a ffff885ebf499bc0 024000d000948300 ffff880972943000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff817154d0>] ? __schedule+0x250/0x730 [<ffffffff817159e6>] schedule+0x36/0x80 [<ffffffff81718560>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0xf0/0x150 [<ffffffff81390a28>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x30 [<ffffffff81717db0>] down_read+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff812b9439>] proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xd9/0x4e0 [<ffffffff81253c95>] ? do_filp_open+0xa5/0x100 [<ffffffff81241d87>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x150 [<ffffffff812f824b>] ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81242266>] vfs_read+0x96/0x130 [<ffffffff812437b5>] SyS_read+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffff8171a6da>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xc5 Both Alexey Dobriyan and Michal Hocko suggested to use dedicated lock for them to mitigate the abuse of mmap_sem. So, introduce a new spinlock in mm_struct to protect the concurrent access to arg_start|end, env_start|end and others, as well as replace write map_sem to read to protect the race condition between prctl and sys_brk which might break check_data_rlimit(), and makes prctl more friendly to other VM operations. This patch just eliminates the abuse of mmap_sem, but it can't resolve the above hung task warning completely since the later access_remote_vm() call needs acquire mmap_sem. The mmap_sem scalability issue will be solved in the future. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523730291-109696-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 8 ++++---- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 ++ kernel/fork.c | 1 + kernel/sys.c | 6 ++++-- mm/init-mm.c | 1 + 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -239,12 +239,12 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(str goto out_mmput; } - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); arg_start = mm->arg_start; arg_end = mm->arg_end; env_start = mm->env_start; env_end = mm->env_end; - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); BUG_ON(arg_start > arg_end); BUG_ON(env_start > env_end); @@ -929,10 +929,10 @@ static ssize_t environ_read(struct file if (!mmget_not_zero(mm)) goto free; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); env_start = mm->env_start; env_end = mm->env_end; - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); while (count > 0) { size_t this_len, max_len; diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct include/linux/mm_types.h --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long exec_vm; /* VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE & ~VM_STACK */ unsigned long stack_vm; /* VM_STACK */ unsigned long def_flags; + + spinlock_t arg_lock; /* protect the below fields */ unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data; unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack; unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end; diff -puN kernel/fork.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct kernel/fork.c --- a/kernel/fork.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct +++ a/kernel/fork.c @@ -900,6 +900,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm->pinned_vm = 0; memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat)); spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock); + spin_lock_init(&mm->arg_lock); mm_init_cpumask(mm); mm_init_aio(mm); mm_init_owner(mm, p); diff -puN kernel/sys.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct kernel/sys.c --- a/kernel/sys.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct +++ a/kernel/sys.c @@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, con return error; } - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* * We don't validate if these members are pointing to @@ -2025,6 +2025,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, con * to any problem in kernel itself */ + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); mm->start_code = prctl_map.start_code; mm->end_code = prctl_map.end_code; mm->start_data = prctl_map.start_data; @@ -2036,6 +2037,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, con mm->arg_end = prctl_map.arg_end; mm->env_start = prctl_map.env_start; mm->env_end = prctl_map.env_end; + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); /* * Note this update of @saved_auxv is lockless thus @@ -2048,7 +2050,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, con if (prctl_map.auxv_size) memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, sizeof(user_auxv)); - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */ diff -puN mm/init-mm.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct mm/init-mm.c --- a/mm/init-mm.c~mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct +++ a/mm/init-mm.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct mm_struct init_mm = { .mm_count = ATOMIC_INIT(1), .mmap_sem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(init_mm.mmap_sem), .page_table_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.page_table_lock), + .arg_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.arg_lock), .mmlist = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist), .user_ns = &init_user_ns, INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-introduce-arg_lock-to-protect-arg_startend-and-env_startend-in-mm_struct.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html