linux-kernel - rt ptracer can monopolize CPU (was: Cpu-Hotplug and Real-Time)

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Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:03:53 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Paul E McKenney <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: rt ptracer can monopolize CPU (was: Cpu-Hotplug and Real-Time)

On 08/07, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 08/07, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> >
> > A will now call kthread_bind(B, cpu1).
> > kthread_bind(), calls wait_task_inactive(B), to ensures that 
> > B has scheduled itself out.
> > 
> > B is still on the runqueue, so A calls yield() in wait_task_inactive().
> > But since A is the task with the highest prio, scheduler schedules it
> > back again.
> > 
> > Thus B never gets to run to schedule itself out.
> > A loops waiting for B to schedule out leading  to system hang.
> 
> But I think we have another case. An RT ptracer can share the same CPU
> with ptracee. The latter sets TASK_STOPPED, unlocks ->siglock, and takes
> a preemption. Ptracer does ptrace_check_attach(), sees TASK_STOPPED, and
> yields in wait_task_inactive.

Even simpler.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#define	__USE_GNU
#include <sched.h>

void die(const char *msg)
{
	printf("ERR!! %s: %m\n", msg);
        kill(0, SIGKILL);
}

void set_cpu(int cpu)
{
	unsigned cpuval = 1 << cpu;
	if (sched_setaffinity(0, 4, (void*)&cpuval) < 0)
		die("setaffinity");
}

// __wake_up_parent() does SYNC wake up, we need a handler to provoke
// signal_wake_up().
// otherwise ptrace_stop() is not preempted after read_unlock(tasklist).
static void sigchld(int sig)
{
}

int main(void)
{
	set_cpu(0);

	int pid = fork();
	if (!pid)
		for (;;)
			;

	struct sched_param sp = { 99 };
	if (sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO, &sp))
		die("setscheduler");

	signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld);

	if (ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL))
		die("attach");

	wait(NULL);

	if (ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, NULL, NULL))
		die("detach");

	kill(pid, SIGKILL);

	return 0;
}

Locks CPU 0. Not a security problem, needs CAP_SYS_NICE and the task
could be reniced and killed, but still not good.

ptracee does ptrace_stop()->do_notify_parent_cldstop(), ptracer preempts
the child before it calls schedule(), ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH) goes to
wait_task_inactive() and yields forever.

Can we just replace yield() with schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) ?
wait_task_inactive() has no time-critical callers, and as it currently
used "on_rq" case is really unlikely.

Oleg.

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