linux.git/kernel/rcu/tree.c, branch v5.15.127

rcu/kvfree: Avoid freeing new kfree_rcu() memory after old grace period

2023-06-21T13:59:18+00:00

commit 5da7cb193db32da783a3f3e77d8b639989321d48 upstream.

Memory passed to kvfree_rcu() that is to be freed is tracked by a
per-CPU kfree_rcu_cpu structure, which in turn contains pointers
to kvfree_rcu_bulk_data structures that contain pointers to memory
that has not yet been handed to RCU, along with an kfree_rcu_cpu_work
structure that tracks the memory that has already been handed to RCU.
These structures track three categories of memory: (1) Memory for
kfree(), (2) Memory for kvfree(), and (3) Memory for both that arrived
during an OOM episode.  The first two categories are tracked in a
cache-friendly manner involving a dynamically allocated page of pointers
(the aforementioned kvfree_rcu_bulk_data structures), while the third
uses a simple (but decidedly cache-unfriendly) linked list through the
rcu_head structures in each block of memory.

On a given CPU, these three categories are handled as a unit, with that
CPU's kfree_rcu_cpu_work structure having one pointer for each of the
three categories.  Clearly, new memory for a given category cannot be
placed in the corresponding kfree_rcu_cpu_work structure until any old
memory has had its grace period elapse and thus has been removed.  And
the kfree_rcu_monitor() function does in fact check for this.

Except that the kfree_rcu_monitor() function checks these pointers one
at a time.  This means that if the previous kfree_rcu() memory passed
to RCU had only category 1 and the current one has only category 2, the
kfree_rcu_monitor() function will send that current category-2 memory
along immediately.  This can result in memory being freed too soon,
that is, out from under unsuspecting RCU readers.

To see this, consider the following sequence of events, in which:

o	Task A on CPU 0 calls rcu_read_lock(), then uses "from_cset",
	then is preempted.

o	CPU 1 calls kfree_rcu(cset, rcu_head) in order to free "from_cset"
	after a later grace period.  Except that "from_cset" is freed
	right after the previous grace period ended, so that "from_cset"
	is immediately freed.  Task A resumes and references "from_cset"'s
	member, after which nothing good happens.

In full detail:

CPU 0					CPU 1
----------------------			----------------------
count_memcg_event_mm()
|rcu_read_lock()  <---
|mem_cgroup_from_task()
 |// css_set_ptr is the "from_cset" mentioned on CPU 1
 |css_set_ptr = rcu_dereference((task)->cgroups)
 |// Hard irq comes, current task is scheduled out.

					cgroup_attach_task()
					|cgroup_migrate()
					|cgroup_migrate_execute()
					|css_set_move_task(task, from_cset, to_cset, true)
					|cgroup_move_task(task, to_cset)
					|rcu_assign_pointer(.., to_cset)
					|...
					|cgroup_migrate_finish()
					|put_css_set_locked(from_cset)
					|from_cset->refcount return 0
					|kfree_rcu(cset, rcu_head) // free from_cset after new gp
					|add_ptr_to_bulk_krc_lock()
					|schedule_delayed_work(&krcp->monitor_work, ..)

					kfree_rcu_monitor()
					|krcp->bulk_head[0]'s work attached to krwp->bulk_head_free[]
					|queue_rcu_work(system_wq, &krwp->rcu_work)
					|if rwork->rcu.work is not in WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT state,
					|call_rcu(&rwork->rcu, rcu_work_rcufn) <--- request new gp

					// There is a perious call_rcu(.., rcu_work_rcufn)
					// gp end, rcu_work_rcufn() is called.
					rcu_work_rcufn()
					|__queue_work(.., rwork->wq, &rwork->work);

					|kfree_rcu_work()
					|krwp->bulk_head_free[0] bulk is freed before new gp end!!!
					|The "from_cset" is freed before new gp end.

// the task resumes some time later.
 |css_set_ptr->subsys[(subsys_id) <--- Caused kernel crash, because css_set_ptr is freed.

This commit therefore causes kfree_rcu_monitor() to refrain from moving
kfree_rcu() memory to the kfree_rcu_cpu_work structure until the RCU
grace period has completed for all three categories.

v2: Use helper function instead of inserted code block at kfree_rcu_monitor().

Fixes: 34c881745549 ("rcu: Support kfree_bulk() interface in kfree_rcu()")
Fixes: 5f3c8d620447 ("rcu/tree: Maintain separate array for vmalloc ptrs")
Reported-by: Mukesh Ojha 
Signed-off-by: Ziwei Dai 
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Tested-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed

2023-05-11T14:00:17+00:00

commit 7a29fb4a4771124bc61de397dbfc1554dbbcc19c upstream.

Registering a kprobe on __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() can cause kernel
stack overflow as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booting the kernel with argument "nohz_full=",
and then giving the following commands at the shell prompt:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
  # echo 'p:mp1 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick' >> kprobe_events
  # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable

This commit therefore adds __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() to the kprobes
blacklist using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL().

Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
ESR: 0x00000000f2000004 -- BRK (AArch64)
FAR: 0x0000ffffccf3e510
Task stack:     [0xffff80000ad30000..0xffff80000ad38000]
IRQ stack:      [0xffff800008050000..0xffff800008058000]
Overflow stack: [0xffff089c36f9f310..0xffff089c36fa0310]
CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 400003c5 (nZcv DAIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
lr : ct_nmi_enter+0x11c/0x138
sp : ffff80000ad30080
x29: ffff80000ad30080 x28: ffff089c82e20000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff089c02a8d100 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 00000000400003c5 x22: 0000ffffccf3e510 x21: ffff089c36fae148
x20: ffff80000ad30120 x19: ffffa8da8fcce148 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffa8da8e44ea6c
x14: ffffa8da8e44e968 x13: ffffa8da8e03136c x12: 1fffe113804d6809
x11: ffff6113804d6809 x10: 0000000000000a60 x9 : dfff800000000000
x8 : ffff089c026b404f x7 : 00009eec7fb297f7 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff80000ad30120 x4 : dfff800000000000 x3 : ffffa8da8e3016f4
x2 : 0000000000000003 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow
CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x108
 show_stack+0x20/0x30
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
 dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
 panic+0x214/0x404
 add_taint+0x0/0xf8
 panic_bad_stack+0x144/0x160
 handle_bad_stack+0x38/0x58
 __bad_stack+0x78/0x7c
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 [...]
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20
 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8
 el1_interrupt+0x28/0x60
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28
 el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68
 __ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x98/0x198
 __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x58/0x80
 system_enable_write+0x144/0x178
 vfs_write+0x174/0x738
 ksys_write+0xd0/0x188
 __arm64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60
 invoke_syscall+0x64/0x180
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x84/0x160
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe8
 el0_svc+0x34/0xd0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: 0x28da86000000 from 0xffff800008000000
PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfffff76600000000
CPU features: 0x00000,01a00100,0000421b
Memory Limit: none

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221119040049.795065-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com/
Fixes: aaf2bc50df1f ("rcu: Abstract out rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from rcu_nmi_enter()")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Fix __this_cpu_read() lockdep warning in rcu_force_quiescent_state()

2022-12-31T12:14:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit ceb1c8c9b8aa9199da46a0f29d2d5f08d9b44c15 ]

Running rcutorture with non-zero fqs_duration module parameter in a
kernel built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=y results in the following splat:

BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000]
code: rcu_torture_fqs/398
caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
CPU: 3 PID: 398 Comm: rcu_torture_fqs Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-yoctodev-standard+
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x86
dump_stack+0x10/0x16
check_preemption_disabled+0xe5/0xf0
__this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
rcu_force_quiescent_state.part.0+0x1c/0x170
rcu_force_quiescent_state+0x1e/0x30
rcu_torture_fqs+0xca/0x160
? rcu_torture_boost+0x430/0x430
kthread+0x192/0x1d0
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x30/0x30
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30


The problem is that rcu_force_quiescent_state() uses __this_cpu_read()
in preemptible code instead of the proper raw_cpu_read().  This commit
therefore changes __this_cpu_read() to raw_cpu_read().

Signed-off-by: Zqiang 
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

rcu: Back off upon fill_page_cache_func() allocation failure

2022-10-26T10:35:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit 093590c16b447f53e66771c8579ae66c96f6ef61 ]

The fill_page_cache_func() function allocates couple of pages to store
kvfree_rcu_bulk_data structures. This is a lightweight (GFP_NORETRY)
allocation which can fail under memory pressure. The function will,
however keep retrying even when the previous attempt has failed.

This retrying is in theory correct, but in practice the allocation is
invoked from workqueue context, which means that if the memory reclaim
gets stuck, these retries can hog the worker for quite some time.
Although the workqueues subsystem automatically adjusts concurrency, such
adjustment is not guaranteed to happen until the worker context sleeps.
And the fill_page_cache_func() function's retry loop is not guaranteed
to sleep (see the should_reclaim_retry() function).

And we have seen this function cause workqueue lockups:

kernel: BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=93 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 stuck for 32s!
[...]
kernel: pool 74: cpus=37 node=0 flags=0x1 nice=0 hung=32s workers=2 manager: 2146
kernel:   pwq 498: cpus=249 node=1 flags=0x1 nice=0 active=4/256 refcnt=5
kernel:     in-flight: 1917:fill_page_cache_func
kernel:     pending: dbs_work_handler, free_work, kfree_rcu_monitor

Originally, we thought that the root cause of this lockup was several
retries with direct reclaim, but this is not yet confirmed.  Furthermore,
we have seen similar lockups without any heavy memory pressure.  This
suggests that there are other factors contributing to these lockups.
However, it is not really clear that endless retries are desireable.

So let's make the fill_page_cache_func() function back off after
allocation failure.

Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

rcu: Apply callbacks processing time limit only on softirq

2022-05-12T10:30:26+00:00

commit a554ba288845fd3f6f12311fd76a51694233458a upstream.

Time limit only makes sense when callbacks are serviced in softirq mode
because:

_ In case we need to get back to the scheduler,
  cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is called after each callback.

_ In case some other softirq vector needs the CPU, the call to
  local_bh_enable() before cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() takes care about
  them via a call to do_softirq().

Therefore, make sure the time limit only applies to softirq mode.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Valentin Schneider 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
[UR: backport to 5.15-stable]
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Fix callbacks processing time limit retaining cond_resched()

2022-05-12T10:30:26+00:00

commit 3e61e95e2d095e308616cba4ffb640f95a480e01 upstream.

The callbacks processing time limit makes sure we are not exceeding a
given amount of time executing the queue.

However its "continue" clause bypasses the cond_resched() call on
rcuc and NOCB kthreads, delaying it until we reach the limit, which can
be very long...

Make sure the scheduler has a higher priority than the time limit.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Valentin Schneider 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay 
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
[UR: backport to 5.15-stable + commit update]
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Tighten rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() checks

2022-01-29T09:58:25+00:00

commit 614ddad17f22a22e035e2ea37a04815f50362017 upstream.

Currently, rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() checks that a grace period is in
progress, however, that grace period could end just after the check.
This commit rechecks that a grace period is still in progress while
holding the rcu_node structure's lock.  The grace period cannot end while
the current CPU's rcu_node structure's ->lock is held, thus avoiding
false positives from the WARN_ON_ONCE().

As Daniel Vacek noted, it is not necessary for the rcu_node structure
to have a CPU that has not yet passed through its quiescent state.

Tested-by: Guillaume Morin 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Mark accesses to rcu_state.n_force_qs

2021-12-22T08:32:51+00:00

commit 2431774f04d1050292054c763070021bade7b151 upstream.

This commit marks accesses to the rcu_state.n_force_qs.  These data
races are hard to make happen, but syzkaller was equal to the task.

Reported-by: syzbot+e08a83a1940ec3846cd5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Marco Elver 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Fix rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() vs noinstr

2021-11-18T18:16:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 74aece72f95f399dd29363669dc32a1344c8fab4 ]

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rcu_nmi_enter()+0x36: call to __kasan_check_read() leaves .noinstr.text section

noinstr cannot have atomic_*() functions in because they're explicitly
annotated, use arch_atomic_*().

Fixes: 2be57f732889 ("rcu: Weaken ->dynticks accesses and updates")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge branches 'doc.2021.07.20c', 'fixes.2021.08.06a', 'nocb.2021.07.20c', 'nolibc.2021.07.20c', 'tasks.2021.07.20c', 'torture.2021.07.27a' and 'torturescript.2021.07.27a' into HEAD

2021-08-10T18:00:53+00:00

doc.2021.07.20c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.08.06a: Miscellaneous fixes.
nocb.2021.07.20c: Callback-offloading (NOCB CPU) updates.
nolibc.2021.07.20c: Tiny userspace library updates.
tasks.2021.07.20c: Tasks RCU updates.
torture.2021.07.27a: In-kernel torture-test updates.
torturescript.2021.07.27a: Torture-test scripting updates.