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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> | 2019-07-31 00:33:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-08-01 20:51:25 +0200 |
| commit | 5d99b32a009e900a561f6a42ea7afe5b21288b8a (patch) | |
| tree | 212e179aa54bd0b2427aa5d97864a334d9201b85 /kernel/time | |
| parent | posix-timers: Rework cancel retry loops (diff) | |
| download | linux-5d99b32a009e900a561f6a42ea7afe5b21288b8a.tar.xz linux-5d99b32a009e900a561f6a42ea7afe5b21288b8a.zip | |
posix-timers: Move rcu_head out of it union
Timer deletion on PREEMPT_RT is prone to priority inversion and live
locks. The hrtimer code has a synchronization mechanism for this. Posix CPU
timers will grow one.
But that mechanism cannot be invoked while holding the k_itimer lock
because that can deadlock against the running timer callback. So the lock
must be dropped which allows the timer to be freed.
The timer free can be prevented by taking RCU readlock before dropping the
lock, but because the rcu_head is part of the 'it' union a concurrent free
will overwrite the hrtimer on which the task is trying to synchronize.
Move the rcu_head out of the union to prevent this.
[ tglx: Fixed up kernel-doc. Rewrote changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730223828.965541887@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index bbe8f9686a70..3e663f982c82 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void) static void k_itimer_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head) { - struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, it.rcu); + struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, rcu); kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); } @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set) } put_pid(tmr->it_pid); sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq); - call_rcu(&tmr->it.rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free); + call_rcu(&tmr->rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free); } static int common_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer) |