linux-kernel - [PATCH] clocksource: fix double add_timer_on() for watchdog

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Date:   Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:08:59 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: fix double add_timer_on() for watchdog_timer

I've got couple reports about kernel 4.19 crashes inside QEMU/KVM:

kernel BUG at kernel/time/timer.c:1154!
BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer->function) in add_timer_on().

At the same time another cpu got:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
of poinson pointer 0xdead000000000200 in:

__hlist_del at include/linux/list.h:681
(inlined by) detach_timer at kernel/time/timer.c:818
(inlined by) expire_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1355
(inlined by) __run_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1686
(inlined by) run_timer_softirq at kernel/time/timer.c:1699

Unfortunately kernel logs are badly scrambled, stacktraces are lost.

Printing timer->function before BUG_ON pointed to clocksource_watchdog().

It looks execution of clocksource_watchdog() theoretically could race with
pair clocksource_stop_watchdog() .. clocksource_start_watchdog():

expire_timers()
 detach_timer(timer, true);
  timer->entry.pprev = NULL;
 raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
 call_timer_fn
  clocksource_watchdog()

					clocksource_watchdog_kthread() or
					clocksource_unbind()

					spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags);
					clocksource_stop_watchdog();
					 del_timer(&watchdog_timer);
					 watchdog_running = 0;
					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags);

					spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags);
					clocksource_start_watchdog();
					 add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, ...);
					 watchdog_running = 1;
					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags);

  spin_lock(&watchdog_lock);
  add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, ...);
   BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer->function);
    timer_pending() -> true
    BUG()

I.e. inside clocksource_watchdog() watchdog_timer could be already armed.

This patch simply checks timer_pending() before calling add_timer_on().
All operations are synchronized by watchdog_lock.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index fff5f64981c6..428beb69426a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -293,8 +293,15 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(struct timer_list *unused)
 	next_cpu = cpumask_next(raw_smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask);
 	if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
 		next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
-	watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
-	add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu);
+
+	/*
+	 * Arm timer if not already pending: could race with concurrent
+	 * pair clocksource_stop_watchdog() clocksource_start_watchdog().
+	 */
+	if (!timer_pending(&watchdog_timer)) {
+		watchdog_timer.expires += WATCHDOG_INTERVAL;
+		add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, next_cpu);
+	}
 out:
 	spin_unlock(&watchdog_lock);
 }