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author | Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2012-01-17 09:40:31 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2012-01-27 11:55:36 +0100 |
commit | b5740f4b2cb3503b436925eb2242bc3d75cd3dfe (patch) | |
tree | c7e00c7be916f5fdc01109257752fc408b2b2d97 /kernel | |
parent | sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug (diff) | |
download | linux-b5740f4b2cb3503b436925eb2242bc3d75cd3dfe.tar.xz linux-b5740f4b2cb3503b436925eb2242bc3d75cd3dfe.zip |
sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
try_to_wake_up() has a problem which may change status from TASK_DEAD to
TASK_RUNNING in race condition with SMI or guest environment of virtual
machine. As a result, exited task is scheduled() again and panic occurs.
Here is the sequence how it occurs:
----------------------------------+-----------------------------
|
CPU A | CPU B
----------------------------------+-----------------------------
TASK A calls exit()....
do_exit()
exit_mm()
down_read(mm->mmap_sem);
rwsem_down_failed_common()
set TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
set waiter.task <= task A
list_add to sem->wait_list
:
raw_spin_unlock_irq()
(I/O interruption occured)
__rwsem_do_wake(mmap_sem)
list_del(&waiter->list);
waiter->task = NULL
wake_up_process(task A)
try_to_wake_up()
(task is still
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
p->on_rq is still 1.)
ttwu_do_wakeup()
(*A)
:
(I/O interruption handler finished)
if (!waiter.task)
schedule() is not called
due to waiter.task is NULL.
tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING
:
check_preempt_curr();
:
task->state = TASK_DEAD
(*B)
<--- set TASK_RUNNING (*C)
schedule()
(exit task is running again)
BUG_ON() is called!
--------------------------------------------------------
The execution time between (*A) and (*B) is usually very short,
because the interruption is disabled, and setting TASK_RUNNING at (*C)
must be executed before setting TASK_DEAD.
HOWEVER, if SMI is interrupted between (*A) and (*B),
(*C) is able to execute AFTER setting TASK_DEAD!
Then, exited task is scheduled again, and BUG_ON() is called....
If the system works on guest system of virtual machine, the time
between (*A) and (*B) may be also long due to scheduling of hypervisor,
and same phenomenon can occur.
By this patch, do_exit() waits for releasing task->pi_lock which is used
in try_to_wake_up(). It guarantees the task becomes TASK_DEAD after
waking up.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120117174031.3118.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 294b1709170d..4b4042f9bc6a 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1038,6 +1038,22 @@ void do_exit(long code) if (tsk->nr_dirtied) __this_cpu_add(dirty_throttle_leaks, tsk->nr_dirtied); exit_rcu(); + + /* + * The setting of TASK_RUNNING by try_to_wake_up() may be delayed + * when the following two conditions become true. + * - There is race condition of mmap_sem (It is acquired by + * exit_mm()), and + * - SMI occurs before setting TASK_RUNINNG. + * (or hypervisor of virtual machine switches to other guest) + * As a result, we may become TASK_RUNNING after becoming TASK_DEAD + * + * To avoid it, we have to wait for releasing tsk->pi_lock which + * is held by try_to_wake_up() + */ + smp_mb(); + raw_spin_unlock_wait(&tsk->pi_lock); + /* causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(). */ tsk->state = TASK_DEAD; tsk->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; /* tell freezer to ignore us */ |