linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix unprotected PI access in enqueue_task

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Message-ID: <57177D70.10504@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:00:32 +0800
From:	Xunlei Pang <xpang@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix unprotected PI access
 in enqueue_task_dl()

On 2016/04/20/ at 20:25, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:19:12AM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> On 2016/04/15 at 09:58, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>>> On 2016/04/14 at 23:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:37:06PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>>>>> We access @pi_task's data without any lock in enqueue_task_dl(), though
>>>>> checked "dl_prio(pi_task->normal_prio)" condition, that's not enough.
>>>> The proper fix is to ensure that pi_task is guaranteed to be blocked.
>>> Even if pi_task was blocked, its parameters are still allowed to be changed,
>>> so we have to do that. Did I miss something?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Xunlei
>> Fortunately, I just reproduced through an overnight test, so it really happened in reality as I thought.
> But what happens? How is it changed when it is blocked?

The top waiter's policy can be changed by other tasks through sched_setattr() syscall during it was blocked.
I created another thread doing the following thing:
     while (1) {
        change the waiter to cfs
        do something
        change the waiter to deadline
    }

Regards,
Xunlei