user/sven/linux.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v4.14.219

kthread_worker: prevent queuing delayed work from timer_fn when it is being canceled

2020-11-10T09:29:04Z

commit 6993d0fdbee0eb38bfac350aa016f65ad11ed3b1 upstream. There is a small race window when a delayed work is being canceled and the work still might be queued from the timer_fn: CPU0 CPU1 kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work() work->canceling++; kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn() kthread_insert_work(); BUG: kthread_insert_work() should not get called when work->canceling is set. Signed-off-by: Zqiang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014083030.16895-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads

2018-08-03T05:50:21Z

commit 3e536e222f2930534c252c1cc7ae799c725c5ff9 upstream. There is a window for racing when printing directly to task->comm, allowing other threads to see a non-terminated string. The vsnprintf function fills the buffer, counts the truncated chars, then finally writes the \0 at the end. creator other vsnprintf: fill (not terminated) count the rest trace_sched_waking(p): ... memcpy(comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN) write \0 The consequences depend on how 'other' uses the string. In our case, it was copied into the tracing system's saved cmdlines, a buffer of adjacent TASK_COMM_LEN-byte buffers (note the 'n' where 0 should be): crash-arm64> x/1024s savedcmd->saved_cmdlines | grep 'evenk' 0xffffffd5b3818640: "irq/497-pwr_evenkworker/u16:12" ...and a strcpy out of there would cause stack corruption: [224761.522292] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffff9bf9783c78 crash-arm64> kbt | grep 'comm\|trace_print_context' #6 0xffffff9bf9783c78 in trace_print_context+0x18c(+396) comm (char [16]) = "irq/497-pwr_even" crash-arm64> rd 0xffffffd4d0e17d14 8 ffffffd4d0e17d14: 2f71726900000000 5f7277702d373934 ....irq/497-pwr_ ffffffd4d0e17d24: 726f776b6e657665 3a3631752f72656b evenkworker/u16: ffffffd4d0e17d34: f9780248ff003231 cede60e0ffffff9b 12..H.x......`.. ffffffd4d0e17d44: cede60c8ffffffd4 00000fffffffffd4 .....`.......... The workaround in e09e28671 (use strlcpy in __trace_find_cmdline) was likely needed because of this same bug. Solved by vsnprintf:ing to a local buffer, then using set_task_comm(). This way, there won't be a window where comm is not terminated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180726071539.188015-1-snild@sony.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bc0c38d139ec7 ("ftrace: latency tracer infrastructure") Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Snild Dolkow Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() wait-loop

2018-06-20T19:02:53Z

[ Upstream commit 741a76b350897604c48fb12beff1c9b77724dc96 ] Gaurav reported a problem with __kthread_parkme() where a concurrent try_to_wake_up() could result in competing stores to ->state which, when the TASK_PARKED store got lost bad things would happen. The comment near set_current_state() actually mentions this competing store, but only mentions the case against TASK_RUNNING. This same store, with different timing, can happen against a subsequent !RUNNING store. This normally is not a problem, because as per that same comment, the !RUNNING state store is inside a condition based wait-loop: for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); if (!need_sleep) break; schedule(); } __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); If we loose the (first) TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store to a previous (concurrent) wakeup, the schedule() will NO-OP and we'll go around the loop once more. The problem here is that the TASK_PARKED store is not inside the KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK condition wait-loop. There is a genuine issue with sleeps that do not have a condition; this is addressed in a subsequent patch. Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/kthread.c: kthread_worker: don't hog the cpu

2017-08-31T23:33:15Z

If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu stall complains. Make it a good citizen. This is triggered in a loop block device test. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups

2017-03-17T14:18:47Z

Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between the kthread itself and its creator. Once the new kthread starts running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator. The creator then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its job by waking it up. In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland. When altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical, kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland and then set the affinity. This also prevents the kthread from being migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and many other things. Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy. While the PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation. This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one. Per-cpu workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes stalling workqueue execution. This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to be migrated by userland. kthreadd starts with the flag set making every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration disallowed. The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread should stay in the root cgroup. It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side. Even if userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat, so it's unlikely that this would break anything. v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit field suggested by Oleg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35Z

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:27Z

We are going to move scheduler ABI details to , which will be used from a number of .c files. Create empty placeholder header that maps to . Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS

2017-02-10T10:15:08Z

Currently CONFIG_TIMER_STATS exposes process information across namespaces: kernel/time/timer_list.c print_timer(): SEQ_printf(m, ", %s/%d", tmp, timer->start_pid); /proc/timer_list: #11: <0000000000000000>, hrtimer_wakeup, S:01, do_nanosleep, cron/2570 Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: John Stultz Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Xing Gao Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Jessica Frazelle Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: Nicolas Iooss Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208192659.GA32582@beast Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kthread: add __printf attributes

2016-12-13T02:55:06Z

When commit fbae2d44aa1d ("kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()") introduced some kthread_create_...() functions which were taking printf-like parametter, it introduced __printf attributes to some functions (e.g. kthread_create_worker()). Nevertheless some new functions were forgotten (they have been detected thanks to -Wmissing-format-attribute warning flag). Add the missing __printf attributes to the newly-introduced functions in order to detect formatting issues at build-time with -Wformat flag. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126193543.22672-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: Don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker()

2016-12-08T13:36:20Z

kthread_create_on_cpu() sets KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU and kthread->cpu, this only makes sense if this kthread can be parked/unparked by cpuhp code. kthread workers never call kthread_parkme() so this has no effect. Change __kthread_create_worker() to simply call kthread_bind(task, cpu). The very fact that kthread_create_on_cpu() doesn't accept a generic fmt shows that it should not be used outside of smpboot.c. Now, the only reason we can not unexport this helper and move it into smpboot.c is that it sets kthread->cpu and struct kthread is not exported. And the only reason we can not kill kthread->cpu is that kthread_unpark() is used by drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c and thus we can not turn _unpark into kthread_unpark(struct smp_hotplug_thread *, cpu). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Tested-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Chunming Zhou Cc: Roman Pen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175110.GA5342@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner