linux-kernel - RE: Race condition in HR timers that cause double insertion and hard lockup -- all latest versions

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Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:46:19 +0000
From:	Itzcak Pechtalt <itzcak@...shnetworks.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Race condition in HR timers that cause double insertion and hard
 lockup -- all latest versions

Indeed,  my crash dump occurred on kernel 2.6.30 (RH 6.5 distribution) and in this version function remove_hrtimer  doesn't preserve "HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK" flag and triggers hard lockup.
So this bug was already fixed in version 2.6.35 to set the flag by remove_hrtimer function.

Seems that  migrate_hrtimer_list case isn't a problem because it is called when old CPU is already dead.

I'll fix the bug report to resolved.

Thanks

Itzcak Pechtalt

-----Original Message-----
From: linus971@...il.com [mailto:linus971@...il.com] On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 7:09 PM
To: Itzcak Pechtalt; Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Race condition in HR timers that cause double insertion and hard lockup -- all latest versions

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Itzcak Pechtalt <itzcak@...shnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> I opened a bug in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83601  for this subject with full description.
> There is also a short fix patch for kernel/hrtimer.c file.
> Even if this bug occurs rary, however it resolves system hard lockup option.

The patch is whitespace-damaged, but with a small oneliner like this that doesn't much matter (the timer files moved to kernel/time/ during this merge window, so the patch wouldn't apply as-is anyway).

It needs a sign-off (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches), but even more importantly it needs to go to the right people for double-checking.

But the patch is more broken than whitespace and even lack of sign-off. It cannot even have compiled. I'm assuming "timer_state" was intended to be "timer->state". Also, every caller but one already has "HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK" set unconditionally or to the old state in "newstate", so I suspect if this patch is the real fix (which I'll leave for Thomas to comment more on), afaik the actual problem can only happen through migrate_hrtimer_list() which uconditionally sets the whole state to HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE.

Thomas? Leaving damaged patch quoted below.

           Linus

> I suspect that it was targeted by mistake to not active list (timers_realtime-clock@...nel-bugs.osdl.org).
> Following is the fix patch based on kernel 3.16.1 (just simple):
> diff -uNr a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c 2014-08-31 20:59:52.177452123 +0300
> +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c 2014-08-31 21:02:14.972166540 +0300
> @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@
> if (!timerqueue_getnext(&base->active))
> base->cpu_base->active_bases &= ~(1 << base->index);
> out:
> - timer->state = newstate;
> + timer->state = (newstate | (timer_state & HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK));
> }
>
> /*
>
> Is there a chance for this patch fix to insert into next kernel release?
>
> Thanks
>
> Itzcak Pechtalt
>