linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH block/for-5.14-fixes] blk-iocost: fix operation ordering in iocg_wake

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:27:16 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-5.14-fixes] blk-iocost: fix operation ordering
 in iocg_wake_fn()

On 7/27/21 6:38 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From aae4e1b4e26c3c671fc19aed2fb2ee19f7438707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:21:30 -1000
> 
> iocg_wake_fn() open-codes wait_queue_entry removal and wakeup because it
> wants the wq_entry to be always removed whether it ended up waking the task
> or not. finish_wait() tests whether wq_entry needs removal without grabbing
> the wait_queue lock and expects the waker to use list_del_init_careful()
> after all waking operations are complete, which iocg_wake_fn() didn't do.
> The operation order was wrong and the regular list_del_init() was used.
> 
> The result is that if a watier wakes up racing the waker, it can free pop
> the wq_entry off stack before the waker is still looking at it, which can
> lead to a backtrace like the following.
> 
>   [7312084.588951] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x586bf4005b2b88: 0000 [#1] SMP
>   ...
>   [7312084.647079] RIP: 0010:queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x171/0x1b0
>   ...
>   [7312084.858314] Call Trace:
>   [7312084.863548]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x30
>   [7312084.872605]  try_to_wake_up+0x4c/0x4f0
>   [7312084.880444]  iocg_wake_fn+0x71/0x80
>   [7312084.887763]  __wake_up_common+0x71/0x140
>   [7312084.895951]  iocg_kick_waitq+0xe8/0x2b0
>   [7312084.903964]  ioc_rqos_throttle+0x275/0x650
>   [7312084.922423]  __rq_qos_throttle+0x20/0x30
>   [7312084.930608]  blk_mq_make_request+0x120/0x650
>   [7312084.939490]  generic_make_request+0xca/0x310
>   [7312084.957600]  submit_bio+0x173/0x200
>   [7312084.981806]  swap_readpage+0x15c/0x240
>   [7312084.989646]  read_swap_cache_async+0x58/0x60
>   [7312084.998527]  swap_cluster_readahead+0x201/0x320
>   [7312085.023432]  swapin_readahead+0x2df/0x450
>   [7312085.040672]  do_swap_page+0x52f/0x820
>   [7312085.058259]  handle_mm_fault+0xa16/0x1420
>   [7312085.066620]  do_page_fault+0x2c6/0x5c0
>   [7312085.074459]  page_fault+0x2f/0x40
> 
> Fix it by switching to list_del_init_careful() and putting it at the end.

Fixed up the malformed commit message, applied, thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe