linux-kernel - Re: ipc,sem: sysv semaphore scalability

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]

Message-ID: <5151E3D2.1070103@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:07:14 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>
CC:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hhuang@...hat.com, jason.low2@...com, walken@...gle.com,
	lwoodman@...hat.com, chegu_vinod@...com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ipc,sem: sysv semaphore scalability

On 03/26/2013 01:51 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:33 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 03/20/2013 03:55 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> This series makes the sysv semaphore code more scalable,
>>> by reducing the time the semaphore lock is held, and making
>>> the locking more scalable for semaphore arrays with multiple
>>> semaphores.
>>
>> Hi Rik,
>>
>> Another issue that came up is:
>>
>> [   96.347341] ================================================
>> [   96.348085] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
>> [   96.348834] 3.9.0-rc4-next-20130326-sasha-00011-gbcb2313 #318 Tainted: G        W
>> [   96.360300] ------------------------------------------------
>> [   96.361084] trinity-child9/7583 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>> [   96.362019] 1 lock held by trinity-child9/7583:
>> [   96.362610]  #0:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8192eafb>] SYSC_semtimedop+0x1fb/0xec0
>>
>> It seems that we can leave semtimedop without releasing the rcu read lock.
>>
>> I'm a bit confused by what's going on in semtimedop with regards to rcu read lock, it
>> seems that this behaviour is actually intentional?
>>
>>         rcu_read_lock();
>>         sma = sem_obtain_object_check(ns, semid);
>>         if (IS_ERR(sma)) {
>>                 if (un)
>>                         rcu_read_unlock();
>>                 error = PTR_ERR(sma);
>>                 goto out_free;
>>         }
>>
>> When I've looked at that it seems that not releasing the read lock was (very)
>> intentional.
> 
> This logic was from the original code, which I also found to be quite
> confusing.

I wasn't getting this warning with the old code, so there was probably something
else that triggers this now.

>>
>> After that, the only code path that would release the lock starts with:
>>
>>         if (un) {
>> 		...
>>
>> So we won't release the lock at all if un is NULL?
>>
> 
> Not necessarily, we do release everything at the end of the function: 
> 
> out_unlock_free:
> 	sem_unlock(sma, locknum);

Ow, there's a rcu_read_unlock() in sem_unlock()? This complicates things even
more I suspect. If un is non-NULL we'll be unlocking rcu lock twice?

	if (un->semid == -1) {
		rcu_read_unlock();
		goto out_unlock_free;
	}
[...]
	out_unlock_free:
	        sem_unlock(sma, locknum);


Thanks,
Sasha
--
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/