linux-kernel - perf: add cond_resched() to task_function

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Message-Id: <20200414222920.121401-1-brho@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:29:20 -0400
From:   Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+bb4935a5c09b5ff79940@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: perf: add cond_resched() to task_function_call()

Under rare circumstances, task_function_call() can repeatedly fail and
cause a soft lockup.

There is a slight race where the process is no longer running on the cpu
we targeted by the time remote_function() runs.  The code will simply
try again.  If we are very unlucky, this will continue to fail, until a
watchdog fires.  This can happen in a heavily loaded, multi-core virtual
machine.

Reported-by: syzbot+bb4935a5c09b5ff79940@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 55e44417f66d..bcafd7b992b3 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
  * @info:	the function call argument
  *
  * Calls the function @func when the task is currently running. This might
- * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly
+ * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly.  This will
+ * retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
+ * task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
  *
- * returns: @func return value, or
- *	    -ESRCH  - when the process isn't running
- *	    -EAGAIN - when the process moved away
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
  */
 static int
 task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -112,11 +112,16 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
 	};
 	int ret;
 
-	do {
-		ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function, &data, 1);
-		if (!ret)
-			ret = data.ret;
-	} while (ret == -EAGAIN);
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
+					       &data, 1);
+		ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+
+		if (ret != -EAGAIN)
+			break;
+
+		cond_resched();
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.26.0.110.g2183baf09c-goog