linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 25/52] sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake

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Message-Id: <20190304081618.664659916@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  4 Mar 2019 09:22:23 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Prateek Sood <prsood@...eaurora.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 25/52] sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake_up() ordering

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

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

[ Upstream commit 6dc080eeb2ba01973bfff0d79844d7a59e12542e ]

For some peculiar reason rcuwait_wake_up() has the right barrier in
the comment, but not in the code.

This mistake has been observed to cause a deadlock in the following
situation:

    P1					P2

    percpu_up_read()			percpu_down_write()
      rcu_sync_is_idle() // false
					  rcu_sync_enter()
					  ...
      __percpu_up_read()

[S] ,-  __this_cpu_dec(*sem->read_count)
    |   smp_rmb();
[L] |   task = rcu_dereference(w->task) // NULL
    |
    |				    [S]	    w->task = current
    |					    smp_mb();
    |				    [L]	    readers_active_check() // fail
    `-> <store happens here>

Where the smp_rmb() (obviously) fails to constrain the store.

[ peterz: Added changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Fixes: 8f95c90ceb54 ("sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543590656-7157-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/exit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3aa01b74c1e36..5523fb0c20c8c 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w)
 	 *        MB (A)	      MB (B)
 	 *    [L] cond		  [L] tsk
 	 */
-	smp_rmb(); /* (B) */
+	smp_mb(); /* (B) */
 
 	/*
 	 * Avoid using task_rcu_dereference() magic as long as we are careful,
-- 
2.19.1