The patch titled ioprio: grab rcu_read_lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ioprio-grab-rcu_read_lock-in-sys_ioprio_setget.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ioprio: grab rcu_read_lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}() From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Using: - CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y - CONFIG_PREEMPT=y - CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y - CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y - CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y found a missing rcu lock during boot on a 512 MiB x86_64 ubuntu vm: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 1 lock held by ureadahead/1355: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8115bc09>] sys_ioprio_set+0x7f/0x29e stack backtrace: Pid: 1355, comm: ureadahead Not tainted 2.6.37-dbg-DEV #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109c10c>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3 [<ffffffff81088cbf>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x44/0x5d [<ffffffff81088cfa>] find_task_by_vpid+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff8115bc3e>] sys_ioprio_set+0xb4/0x29e [<ffffffff8147cf21>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff8105c409>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffff8147cee2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f The fix is to: a) grab rcu lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}() and b) avoid grabbing tasklist_lock. Discussion in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128951324702889 Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ioprio.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ioprio.c~ioprio-grab-rcu_read_lock-in-sys_ioprio_setget fs/ioprio.c --- a/fs/ioprio.c~ioprio-grab-rcu_read_lock-in-sys_ioprio_setget +++ a/fs/ioprio.c @@ -103,12 +103,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, } ret = -ESRCH; - /* - * We want IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP/IOPRIO_WHO_USER to be "atomic", - * so we can't use rcu_read_lock(). See re-copy of ->ioprio - * in copy_process(). - */ - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); switch (which) { case IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS: if (!who) @@ -153,7 +148,7 @@ free_uid: ret = -EINVAL; } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; } @@ -197,7 +192,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(ioprio_get, int, which, int ret = -ESRCH; int tmpio; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); switch (which) { case IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS: if (!who) @@ -250,6 +245,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(ioprio_get, int, which, ret = -EINVAL; } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx are ioprio-grab-rcu_read_lock-in-sys_ioprio_setget.patch memcg-add-page_cgroup-flags-for-dirty-page-tracking.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces-fix.patch memcg-create-extensible-page-stat-update-routines.patch memcg-add-lock-to-synchronize-page-accounting-and-migration.patch writeback-create-dirty_info-structure.patch memcg-add-dirty-page-accounting-infrastructure.patch memcg-add-kernel-calls-for-memcg-dirty-page-stats.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-use-native-word-to-represent-dirtyable-pages.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-catch-negative-per-cpu-sums-in-dirty-info.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-avoid-overflow-in-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-correct-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages-return-type.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-avoid-free-overflow-in-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages.patch memcg-cpu-hotplug-lockdep-warning-fix.patch memcg-add-cgroupfs-interface-to-memcg-dirty-limits.patch memcg-break-out-event-counters-from-other-stats.patch memcg-check-memcg-dirty-limits-in-page-writeback.patch memcg-use-native-word-page-statistics-counters.patch memcg-use-native-word-page-statistics-counters-fix.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup-parameter-to-mem_cgroup_page_stat.patch memcg-pass-mem_cgroup-to-mem_cgroup_dirty_info.patch memcg-make-throttle_vm_writeout-memcg-aware.patch memcg-make-throttle_vm_writeout-memcg-aware-fix.patch memcg-simplify-mem_cgroup_page_stat.patch memcg-simplify-mem_cgroup_dirty_info.patch memcg-make-mem_cgroup_page_stat-return-value-unsigned.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