linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/core: Mitigate race cpus_share_cache()/update_top_cache

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Date:   Thu,  4 Nov 2021 17:51:20 +0000
From:   Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        valentin.schneider@....com, jing-ting.wu@...iatek.com,
        Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: Mitigate race cpus_share_cache()/update_top_cache_domain()

Nothing protects the access to the per_cpu variable sd_llc_id. When testing
the same CPU (i.e. this_cpu == that_cpu), a race condition exists with
update_top_cache_domain(). One scenario being:

              CPU1                            CPU2
  ==================================================================

  per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) => 0
                                    partition_sched_domains_locked()
      				      detach_destroy_domains()
  cpus_share_cache(CPUX, CPUX)          update_top_cache_domain(CPUX)
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) => 0
                                          per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) = CPUX
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) => CPUX
    return false

ttwu_queue_cond() wouldn't catch smp_processor_id() == cpu and the result
is a warning triggered from ttwu_queue_wakelist().

Avoid a such race in cpus_share_cache() by always returning true when
this_cpu == that_cpu.

Fixes: 518cd6234178 ("sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries")
Reported-by: Jing-Ting Wu <jing-ting.wu@...iatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f2611b9cf503..f5ca15cdcff4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3726,6 +3726,9 @@ void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu)
 
 bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
 {
+	if (this_cpu == that_cpu)
+		return true;
+
 	return per_cpu(sd_llc_id, this_cpu) == per_cpu(sd_llc_id, that_cpu);
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1