This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cpuset,mempolicy: fix sleeping function called from invalid context to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cpuset-mempolicy-fix-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 391acf970d21219a2a5446282d3b20eace0c0d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:57:18 +0800 Subject: cpuset,mempolicy: fix sleeping function called from invalid context From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 391acf970d21219a2a5446282d3b20eace0c0d7a upstream. When runing with the kernel(3.15-rc7+), the follow bug occurs: [ 9969.258987] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:586 [ 9969.359906] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 160655, name: python [ 9969.441175] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 9969.488184] CPU: 26 PID: 160655 Comm: python Tainted: G A 3.15.0-rc7+ #85 [ 9969.581032] Hardware name: FUJITSU-SV PRIMEQUEST 1800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 1000 Series BIOS Version 1.39 11/16/2012 [ 9969.706052] ffffffff81a20e60 ffff8803e941fbd0 ffffffff8162f523 ffff8803e941fd18 [ 9969.795323] ffff8803e941fbe0 ffffffff8109995a ffff8803e941fc58 ffffffff81633e6c [ 9969.884710] ffffffff811ba5dc ffff880405c6b480 ffff88041fdd90a0 0000000000002000 [ 9969.974071] Call Trace: [ 9970.003403] [<ffffffff8162f523>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66 [ 9970.065074] [<ffffffff8109995a>] __might_sleep+0xfa/0x130 [ 9970.130743] [<ffffffff81633e6c>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3c/0x4f0 [ 9970.200638] [<ffffffff811ba5dc>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bc/0x210 [ 9970.272610] [<ffffffff81105807>] cpuset_mems_allowed+0x27/0x140 [ 9970.344584] [<ffffffff811b1303>] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150 [ 9970.409282] [<ffffffff811b1385>] __mpol_dup+0xe5/0x150 [ 9970.471897] [<ffffffff811b1303>] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150 [ 9970.536585] [<ffffffff81068c86>] ? copy_process.part.23+0x606/0x1d40 [ 9970.613763] [<ffffffff810bf28d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 9970.683660] [<ffffffff810ddddf>] ? monotonic_to_bootbased+0x2f/0x50 [ 9970.759795] [<ffffffff81068cf0>] copy_process.part.23+0x670/0x1d40 [ 9970.834885] [<ffffffff8106a598>] do_fork+0xd8/0x380 [ 9970.894375] [<ffffffff81110e4c>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x9c/0xf0 [ 9970.969470] [<ffffffff8106a8c6>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20 [ 9971.030011] [<ffffffff81642009>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90 [ 9971.091573] [<ffffffff81641c29>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The cause is that cpuset_mems_allowed() try to take mutex_lock(&callback_mutex) under the rcu_read_lock(which was hold in __mpol_dup()). And in cpuset_mems_allowed(), the access to cpuset is under rcu_read_lock, so in __mpol_dup, we can reduce the rcu_read_lock protection region to protect the access to cpuset only in current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(). So that we can avoid this bug. This patch is a temporary solution that just addresses the bug mentioned above, can not fix the long-standing issue about cpuset.mems rebinding on fork(): "When the forker's task_struct is duplicated (which includes ->mems_allowed) and it races with an update to cpuset_being_rebound in update_tasks_nodemask() then the task's mems_allowed doesn't get updated. And the child task's mems_allowed can be wrong if the cpuset's nodemask changes before the child has been added to the cgroup's tasklist." Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cpuset.c | 8 +++++++- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -1152,7 +1152,13 @@ done: int current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(void) { - return task_cs(current) == cpuset_being_rebound; + int ret; + + rcu_read_lock(); + ret = task_cs(current) == cpuset_being_rebound; + rcu_read_unlock(); + + return ret; } static int update_relax_domain_level(struct cpuset *cs, s64 val) --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1991,7 +1991,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct memp } else *new = *old; - rcu_read_lock(); if (current_cpuset_is_being_rebound()) { nodemask_t mems = cpuset_mems_allowed(current); if (new->flags & MPOL_F_REBINDING) @@ -1999,7 +1998,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct memp else mpol_rebind_policy(new, &mems, MPOL_REBIND_ONCE); } - rcu_read_unlock(); atomic_set(&new->refcnt, 1); return new; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/cpuset-mempolicy-fix-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html