linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] init: Align init_task to avoid conflict with MUTEX

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Message-Id: <20200626210754.3338389-1-shorne@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 27 Jun 2020 06:07:53 +0900
From:   Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] init: Align init_task to avoid conflict with MUTEX_FLAGS

When booting on 32-bit machines (seen on OpenRISC) I saw this warning
with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES turned on.

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:1242 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(__owner_task(owner) != current)
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.8.0-rc1-simple-smp-00005-g2864e2171db4-dirty #179
    Call trace:
    [<(ptrval)>] dump_stack+0x34/0x48
    [<(ptrval)>] __warn+0x104/0x158
    [<(ptrval)>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    [<(ptrval)>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x7c/0x94
    [<(ptrval)>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    [<(ptrval)>] mutex_unlock+0x18/0x28
    [<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked.part.0+0x29c/0x2f4
    [<(ptrval)>] ? page_alloc_cpu_dead+0x0/0x30
    [<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x0/0x684
    [<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x4c/0x5c
    [<(ptrval)>] page_alloc_init+0x34/0x68
    [<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x1a0/0x684
    [<(ptrval)>] ? early_init_dt_scan_nodes+0x60/0x70
    irq event stamp: 0

I traced this to kernel/locking/mutex.c storing 3 bits of MUTEX_FLAGS in
the task_struct pointer (mutex.owner).  There is a comment saying that
task_structs are always aligned to L1_CACHE_BYTES.  This is not true for
the init_task.

On 64-bit machines this is not a problem because symbol addresses are
naturally aligned to 64-bits providing 3 bits for MUTEX_FLAGS.  Howerver,
for 32-bit machines the symbol address only has 2 bits available.

Fix this by setting init_task alignment to at least L1_CACHE_BYTES.

Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
Changes since v1:
 - Make alignment unconditional suggested by Peter

 init/init_task.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index 15089d15010a..ab6173f8e6a8 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct task_struct init_task
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
 	__init_task_data
 #endif
+	__aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
 	.thread_info	= INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task),
-- 
2.26.2