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authorYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>2012-01-17 17:40:31 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-01-27 11:55:36 +0100
commitb5740f4b2cb3503b436925eb2242bc3d75cd3dfe (patch)
treec7e00c7be916f5fdc01109257752fc408b2b2d97 /kernel
parent71325960d16cd68ea0e22a8da15b2495b0f363f7 (diff)
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.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 294b1709170..4b4042f9bc6 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 */