sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race

This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b7c32cb7bfe..ef51b0ef4bd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1491,7 +1491,13 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int cpu, success = 0;
 
-	smp_wmb();
+	/*
+	 * If we are going to wake up a thread waiting for CONDITION we
+	 * need to ensure that CONDITION=1 done by the caller can not be
+	 * reordered with p->state check below. This pairs with mb() in
+	 * set_current_state() the waiting thread does.
+	 */
+	smp_mb__before_spinlock();
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
 	if (!(p->state & state))
 		goto out;
@@ -2394,6 +2400,12 @@ need_resched:
 	if (sched_feat(HRTICK))
 		hrtick_clear(rq);
 
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that signal_pending_state()->signal_pending() below
+	 * can't be reordered with __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
+	 * done by the caller to avoid the race with signal_wake_up().
+	 */
+	smp_mb__before_spinlock();
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
 
 	switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;