From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> The timerlat interface will get and put the task that is part of the "kthread" field of the osn_var to keep it around until all references are released. But here's a race in the "stop_kthread()" code that will call put_task_struct() on the kthread if it is not a kernel thread. This can race with the releasing of the references to that task struct and the put_task_struct() can be called twice when it should have been called just once. Take the interface_lock() in stop_kthread() to synchronize this change. But to do so, the function stop_per_cpu_kthreads() needs to change the loop from for_each_online_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() and remove the cpu_read_lock(), as the interface_lock can not be taken while the cpu locks are held. The only side effect of this change is that it may do some extra work, as the per_cpu variables of the offline CPUs would not be set anyway, and would simply be skipped in the loop. Remove unneeded "return;" in stop_kthread(). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240905113359.2b934242@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: e88ed227f639e ("tracing/timerlat: Add user-space interface") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c index 48e5014dd4ab..bbe47781617e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c @@ -1953,8 +1953,12 @@ static void stop_kthread(unsigned int cpu) { struct task_struct *kthread; + mutex_lock(&interface_lock); kthread = per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread; if (kthread) { + per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread = NULL; + mutex_unlock(&interface_lock); + if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, &kthread_cpumask) && !WARN_ON(!test_bit(OSN_WORKLOAD, &osnoise_options))) { kthread_stop(kthread); @@ -1967,8 +1971,8 @@ static void stop_kthread(unsigned int cpu) kill_pid(kthread->thread_pid, SIGKILL, 1); put_task_struct(kthread); } - per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread = NULL; } else { + mutex_unlock(&interface_lock); /* if no workload, just return */ if (!test_bit(OSN_WORKLOAD, &osnoise_options)) { /* @@ -1976,7 +1980,6 @@ static void stop_kthread(unsigned int cpu) */ per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).sampling = false; barrier(); - return; } } } @@ -1991,12 +1994,8 @@ static void stop_per_cpu_kthreads(void) { int cpu; - cpus_read_lock(); - - for_each_online_cpu(cpu) + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) stop_kthread(cpu); - - cpus_read_unlock(); } /* -- 2.43.0