From: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
To: Lancelot SIX <lancelot.six@amd.com>, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdkfd: Flush the process wq before creating a kfd_process
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:58:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5c9fc5f-a5f6-4b02-9690-c5cda91b1e79@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240426185529.529811-1-lancelot.six@amd.com>
On 2024-04-26 14:55, Lancelot SIX wrote:
> There is a race condition when re-creating a kfd_process for a process.
> This has been observed when a process under the debugger executes
> exec(3). In this scenario:
> - The process executes exec.
> - This will eventually release the process's mm, which will cause the
> kfd_process object associated with the process to be freed
> (kfd_process_free_notifier decrements the reference count to the
> kfd_process to 0). This causes kfd_process_ref_release to enqueue
> kfd_process_wq_release to the kfd_process_wq.
> - The debugger receives the PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC notification, and tries to
> re-enable AMDGPU traps (KFD_IOC_DBG_TRAP_ENABLE).
> - When handling this request, KFD tries to re-create a kfd_process.
> This eventually calls kfd_create_process and kobject_init_and_add.
>
> At this point the call to kobject_init_and_add can fail because the
> old kfd_process.kobj has not been freed yet by kfd_process_wq_release.
>
> This patch proposes to avoid this race by making sure to drain
> kfd_process_wq before creating a new kfd_process object. This way, we
> know that any cleanup task is done executing when we reach
> kobject_init_and_add.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lancelot SIX <lancelot.six@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> index 58c1fe542193..451bb058cc62 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
> @@ -829,6 +829,14 @@ struct kfd_process *kfd_create_process(struct task_struct *thread)
> if (process) {
> pr_debug("Process already found\n");
> } else {
> + /* If the process just called exec(3), it is possible that the
> + * cleanup of the kfd_process (following the release of the mm
> + * of the old process image) is still in the cleanup work queue.
> + * Make sure to drain any job before trying to recreate any
> + * resource for this process.
> + */
> + flush_workqueue(kfd_process_wq);
> +
> process = create_process(thread);
> if (IS_ERR(process))
> goto out;
>
> base-commit: cf743996352e327f483dc7d66606c90276f57380
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2024-04-26 18:55 [PATCH] drm/amdkfd: Flush the process wq before creating a kfd_process Lancelot SIX
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