linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 37/78] sched/dl: Fix race in dl_task

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Date:	Mon,  9 Jun 2014 15:48:17 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 37/78] sched/dl: Fix race in dl_task_timer()

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>

commit 0f397f2c90ce68821ee864c2c53baafe78de765d upstream.

Throttled task is still on rq, and it may be moved to other cpu
if user is playing with sched_setaffinity(). Therefore, unlocked
task_rq() access makes the race.

Juri Lelli reports he got this race when dl_bandwidth_enabled()
was not set.

Other thing, pointed by Peter Zijlstra:

   "Now I suppose the problem can still actually happen when
    you change the root domain and trigger a effective affinity
    change that way".

To fix that we do the same as made in __task_rq_lock(). We do not
use __task_rq_lock() itself, because it has a useful lockdep check,
which is not correct in case of dl_task_timer(). We do not need
pi_lock locked here. This case is an exception (PeterZ):

   "The only reason we don't strictly need ->pi_lock now is because
    we're guaranteed to have p->state == TASK_RUNNING here and are
    thus free of ttwu races".

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3056991400578422@web14g.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -490,9 +490,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_time
 						     struct sched_dl_entity,
 						     dl_timer);
 	struct task_struct *p = dl_task_of(dl_se);
-	struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+	struct rq *rq;
+again:
+	rq = task_rq(p);
 	raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
 
+	if (rq != task_rq(p)) {
+		/* Task was moved, retrying. */
+		raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
+		goto again;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We need to take care of a possible races here. In fact, the
 	 * task might have changed its scheduling policy to something


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