From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Motohiro Kosaki <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:40:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117174031.3118.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326721082.2442.234.camel@twins>
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 20:51 +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
>
> > 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. (See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/21/523)
> > As a result, exited task is scheduled() again and panic occurs.
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> This Changelog isn't very good. Please spell out the problem instead of
> referring to it so that people using git-blame and the like don't then
> have to go look up some (possibly non-existent) web-resource.
Ahh, Ok.
I rewrote the description and comment in patch.
Please check them.
-----
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>
---
kernel/exit.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
Index: linux-3.2/kernel/exit.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.2.orig/kernel/exit.c
+++ linux-3.2/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1038,6 +1038,22 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
preempt_disable();
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;
schedule();
-----
--
Yasunori Goto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 0:42 [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition Yasunori Goto
2011-12-22 2:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-22 8:22 ` Yasunori Goto
2011-12-22 20:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-23 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-23 15:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-26 8:23 ` Yasunori Goto
2011-12-26 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-27 6:48 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 10:22 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-06 12:01 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-06 14:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-06 14:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-07 1:31 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-16 11:51 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-16 13:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-17 8:40 ` Yasunori Goto [this message]
2012-01-17 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 15:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-18 9:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-18 14:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-24 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 10:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 17:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-25 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 17:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-26 15:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 16:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-27 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-28 12:03 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit() tip-bot for Yasunori Goto
2012-01-28 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-29 16:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-29 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-29 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-29 18:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-30 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-06 13:48 ` [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-28 21:07 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-24 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 18:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 6:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-01-26 21:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 20:25 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix rq->nr_uninterruptible update race tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 5:20 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-27 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 14:11 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-26 21:21 ` [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-27 8:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-26 6:52 ` Yasunori Goto
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