linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] locking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:49:55 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, dbueso@...e.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, jade.alglave@....com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] locking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read_slowpath exit when queue is empty

From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>

LTP mtest06 has been observed to occasionally hit "still mapped when
deleted" and following BUG_ON on arm64.

The extra mapcount originated from pagefault handler, which handled
pagefault for vma that has already been detached. vma is detached
under mmap_sem write lock by detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(), which
also invalidates vmacache.

When the pagefault handler (under mmap_sem read lock) calls
find_vma(), vmacache_valid() wrongly reports vmacache as valid.

After rwsem down_read() returns via 'queue empty' path (as of v5.2),
it does so without an ACQUIRE on sem->count:

  down_read()
    __down_read()
      rwsem_down_read_failed()
        __rwsem_down_read_failed_common()
          raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
          if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
            if (atomic_long_read(&sem->count) >= 0) {
              raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
              return sem;

The problem can be reproduced by running LTP mtest06 in a loop and
building the kernel (-j $NCPUS) in parallel. It does reproduces since
v4.20 on arm64 HPE Apollo 70 (224 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 2 nodes). It
triggers reliably in about an hour.

The patched kernel ran fine for 10+ hours.

Cc: dbueso@...e.de
Cc: mingo@...hat.com
Fixes: 4b486b535c33 ("locking/rwsem: Exit read lock slowpath if queue empty & no writer")
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50b8914e20d1d62bb2dee42d342836c2c16ebee7.1563438048.git.jstancek@redhat.com
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -1032,6 +1032,8 @@ rwsem_down_read_slowpath(struct rw_semap
 		 */
 		if (adjustment && !(atomic_long_read(&sem->count) &
 		     (RWSEM_WRITER_MASK | RWSEM_FLAG_HANDOFF))) {
+			/* Provide lock ACQUIRE */
+			smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep();
 			raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
 			rwsem_set_reader_owned(sem);
 			lockevent_inc(rwsem_rlock_fast);