linux-kernel - Re: 5.8-rc*: kernel BUG at kernel/signal.c:1917

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:26:23 +0200
From:   peterz@...radead.org
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        christian@...uner.io, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: 5.8-rc*: kernel BUG at kernel/signal.c:1917

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 12:59:24PM +0200, peterz@...radead.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:41:06AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:26:58AM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > Peter,
> > > 
> > > Let me add another note. TASK_TRACED/TASK_STOPPED was always protected by
> > > ->siglock. In particular, ttwu(__TASK_TRACED) must be always called with
> > > ->siglock held. That is why ptrace_freeze_traced() assumes it can safely
> > > do s/TASK_TRACED/__TASK_TRACED/ under spin_lock(siglock).
> > > 
> > > Can this change race with
> > > 
> > > 		if (signal_pending_state(prev->state, prev)) {
> > > 			prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
> > > 		}
> > > 
> > > in __schedule() ? Hopefully not, signal-state is protected by siglock too.
> > > 
> > > So I think this logic was correct even if it doesn't look nice. But "doesn't
> > > look nice" is true for the whole ptrace code ;)
> > 
> > *groan*... another bit of obscure magic :-(
> > 
> > let me go try and wake up and figure out how best to deal with this.

This then? That seems to survive the strace thing.

---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e15543cb84812..b5973d7fa521c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4100,9 +4100,9 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)
  */
 static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
 {
+	unsigned long prev_state, tmp_state;
 	struct task_struct *prev, *next;
 	unsigned long *switch_count;
-	unsigned long prev_state;
 	struct rq_flags rf;
 	struct rq *rq;
 	int cpu;
@@ -4140,16 +4140,38 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
 	rq_lock(rq, &rf);
 	smp_mb__after_spinlock();
 
+	/*
+	 * We must re-load prev->state in case ttwu_remote() changed it
+	 * before we acquired rq->lock.
+	 */
+	tmp_state = prev->state;
+	if (unlikely(prev_state != tmp_state)) {
+		/*
+		 * ptrace_{,un}freeze_traced() think it is cool to change
+		 * ->state around behind our backs between TASK_TRACED and
+		 *  __TASK_TRACED.
+		 *
+		 * This is safe because this, as well as any __TASK_TRACED
+		 * wakeups are under siglock.
+		 *
+		 * For any other case, a changed prev_state must be to
+		 * TASK_RUNNING, such that when it blocks, the load has
+		 * happened before the smp_mb().
+		 *
+		 * Also see the comment with deactivate_task().
+		 */
+		SCHED_WARN_ON(tmp_state && (prev_state & __TASK_TRACED &&
+					   !(tmp_state & __TASK_TRACED)));
+
+		prev_state = tmp_state;
+	}
+
 	/* Promote REQ to ACT */
 	rq->clock_update_flags <<= 1;
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
 
 	switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;
-	/*
-	 * We must re-load prev->state in case ttwu_remote() changed it
-	 * before we acquired rq->lock.
-	 */
-	if (!preempt && prev_state && prev_state == prev->state) {
+	if (!preempt && prev_state) {
 		if (signal_pending_state(prev_state, prev)) {
 			prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
 		} else {