The patch titled
Subject: kthread: fix kthread_mod_delayed_work vs kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync race
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kthread-fix-kthread_mod_delayed_work-vs-kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync-race.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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From: Martin Liu <liumartin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kthread: fix kthread_mod_delayed_work vs kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync race
We encountered a system hang issue while doing the tests. The callstack
is as following
schedule+0x80/0x100
schedule_timeout+0x48/0x138
wait_for_common+0xa4/0x134
wait_for_completion+0x1c/0x2c
kthread_flush_work+0x114/0x1cc
kthread_cancel_work_sync.llvm.16514401384283632983+0xe8/0x144
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x18/0x2c
xxxx_pm_notify+0xb0/0xd8
blocking_notifier_call_chain_robust+0x80/0x194
pm_notifier_call_chain_robust+0x28/0x4c
suspend_prepare+0x40/0x260
enter_state+0x80/0x3f4
pm_suspend+0x60/0xdc
state_store+0x108/0x144
kobj_attr_store+0x38/0x88
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0
vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368
ksys_write+0x7c/0xec
When we started investigating, we found race between
kthread_mod_delayed_work vs kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync. The race's
result could be simply reproduced as a kthread_mod_delayed_work with a
following kthread_flush_work call.
Thing is we release kthread_mod_delayed_work kspin_lock in
__kthread_cancel_work so it opens a race window for
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync to change the canceling count used to
prevent dwork from being requeued before calling kthread_flush_work.
However, we don't check the canceling count after returning from
__kthread_cancel_work and then insert the dwork to the worker. It results
the following kthread_flush_work inserts flush work to dwork's tail which
is at worker's dealyed_work_list. Therefore, flush work will never get
moved to the worker's work_list to be executed. Finally,
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync will NOT be able to get completed and
wait forever. The code sequence diagram is as following
Thread A Thread B
kthread_mod_delayed_work
spin_lock
__kthread_cancel_work
canceling = 1
spin_unlock
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync
spin_lock
kthread_cancel_work
canceling = 2
spin_unlock
del_timer_sync
spin_lock
canceling = 1 // canceling count gets update in ThreadB before
queue_delayed_work // dwork is put into the woker's dealyed_work_list
without checking the canceling count
spin_unlock
kthread_flush_work
spin_lock
Insert flush work // at the tail of the
dwork which is at
the worker's
dealyed_work_list
spin_unlock
wait_for_completion // Thread B stuck here as
flush work will never
get executed
The canceling count could change in __kthread_cancel_work as the spinlock
get released and regained in between, let's check the count again before
we queue the delayed work to avoid the race.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210513065458.941403-1-liumartin@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 37be45d49dec2 ("kthread: allow to cancel kthread work")
Signed-off-by: Martin Liu <liumartin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: David Chao <davidchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jenhaochen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c~kthread-fix-kthread_mod_delayed_work-vs-kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync-race
+++ a/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,19 @@ bool kthread_mod_delayed_work(struct kth
goto out;
ret = __kthread_cancel_work(work, true, &flags);
+
+ /*
+ * Canceling could run in parallel from kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync
+ * and change work's canceling count as the spinlock is released and regain
+ * in __kthread_cancel_work so we need to check the count again. Otherwise,
+ * we might incorrectly queue the dwork and further cause
+ * cancel_delayed_work_sync thread waiting for flush dwork endlessly.
+ */
+ if (work->canceling) {
+ ret = false;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
fast_queue:
__kthread_queue_delayed_work(worker, dwork, delay);
out:
_
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