linux-kernel - Re: failure to boot after dc6e0818bc9a "sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock"

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Date:   Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:27:04 -0400
From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: failure to boot after dc6e0818bc9a "sched/cpuacct: Optimize away
 RCU read lock"

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 09:48:06PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 01:43:24PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > One of my test VMs has been failing to boot linux-next recently.  I
> > finally got around to a bisect this morning, and it landed on the below.
> > 
> > What other information would be useful to debug this?
> 
> A more recent -next should have this commit in it:

Ah, yep, it's booting again with today's -next.  Thanks.--b.

> 
> 
> commit f2aa197e4794bf4c2c0c9570684f86e6fa103e8b
> Author: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> Date:   Sat Mar 5 11:41:03 2022 +0800
> 
>     cgroup: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warning
>     
>     task_css_set_check() will use rcu_dereference_check() to check for
>     rcu_read_lock_held() on the read-side, which is not true after commit
>     dc6e0818bc9a ("sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock"). This
>     commit drop explicit rcu_read_lock(), change to RCU-sched read-side
>     critical section. So fix the RCU warning by adding check for
>     rcu_read_lock_sched_held().
>     
>     Fixes: dc6e0818bc9a ("sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock")
>     Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
>     Reported-by: syzbot+16e3f2c77e7c5a0113f9@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>     Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
>     Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
>     Tested-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
>     Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
>     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220305034103.57123-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> index 1e356c222756..0d1ada8968d7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> @@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ extern struct mutex cgroup_mutex;
>  extern spinlock_t css_set_lock;
>  #define task_css_set_check(task, __c)					\
>  	rcu_dereference_check((task)->cgroups,				\
> +		rcu_read_lock_sched_held() ||				\
>  		lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex) ||			\
>  		lockdep_is_held(&css_set_lock) ||			\
>  		((task)->flags & PF_EXITING) || (__c))