linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: kthread_bind fails to enforce CPU affinity (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 7 Dec 2014 20:28:34 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	yuyang.du@...el.com, lkp@...org,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Benjamin Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale.com>,
	subbaram@...eaurora.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>, sp@...era.io,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: kthread_bind fails to enforce CPU affinity
 (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> wrote:
>
> Since we cannot call set_task_cpu (the task is in a sleeping state),
> just do an explicit set of task_thread_info(p)->cpu.

Scheduler people: is this sufficient and ok?

The __set_task_cpu() function does various other things too:

        set_task_rq(p, cpu);
  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
        /*
         * After ->cpu is set up to a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...) can be
         * successfuly executed on another CPU. We must ensure that updates of
         * per-task data have been completed by this moment.
         */
        smp_wmb();
        task_thread_info(p)->cpu = cpu;
        p->wake_cpu = cpu;
  #endif

which makes me worry about just setting the thread_info->cpu value.
That set_task_rq() initializes various group scheduling things, an
dthat whole "wake_cpu" thing seems relevant too.

I'm not saying the patch is wrong, I just want confirmation/ack for
it. Although to be honest, I'd rather see this come in through the
scheduler tree anyway.

Hmm? This seems to go back to 2.6.33 if that "Fixes" line is accurate,
so it's been around forever (almost exactly five years). Comments?

                    Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/