The quilt patch titled Subject: getrusage: use sig->stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was getrusage-use-sig-stats_lock-rather-than-lock_task_sighand.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: getrusage: use sig->stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand() Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:50:53 +0100 lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call getrusage() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, spin_lock_irq will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time. Change getrusage() to use sig->stats_lock, it was specifically designed for this type of use. This way it runs lockless in the likely case. TODO: - Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock too, then we can remove spin_lock_irq(siglock) in wait_task_zombie(). - Turn sig->stats_lock into seqcount_rwlock_t, this way the readers in the slow mode won't exclude each other. See https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913154907.GA26210@xxxxxxxxxx/ - stats_lock has to disable irqs because ->siglock can be taken in irq context, it would be very nice to change __exit_signal() to avoid the siglock->stats_lock dependency. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122155053.GA26214@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sys.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sys.c~getrusage-use-sig-stats_lock-rather-than-lock_task_sighand +++ a/kernel/sys.c @@ -1788,7 +1788,9 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, in unsigned long maxrss; struct mm_struct *mm; struct signal_struct *sig = p->signal; + unsigned int seq = 0; +retry: memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r)); utime = stime = 0; maxrss = 0; @@ -1800,8 +1802,7 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, in goto out_thread; } - if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags)) - return; + flags = read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave(&sig->stats_lock, &seq); switch (who) { case RUSAGE_BOTH: @@ -1829,14 +1830,23 @@ void getrusage(struct task_struct *p, in r->ru_oublock += sig->oublock; if (maxrss < sig->maxrss) maxrss = sig->maxrss; + + rcu_read_lock(); __for_each_thread(sig, t) accumulate_thread_rusage(t, r); + rcu_read_unlock(); + break; default: BUG(); } - unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags); + + if (need_seqretry(&sig->stats_lock, seq)) { + seq = 1; + goto retry; + } + done_seqretry_irqrestore(&sig->stats_lock, seq, flags); if (who == RUSAGE_CHILDREN) goto out_children; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are ptrace_attach-shift-sendsigstop-into-ptrace_set_stopped.patch