linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading

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Message-Id: <20230322194456.2331527-2-frederic@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:44:53 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>, Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading

The shrinker may run concurrently with callbacks (de-)offloading. As
such, calling rcu_nocb_lock() is very dangerous because it does a
conditional locking. The worst outcome is that rcu_nocb_lock() doesn't
lock but rcu_nocb_unlock() eventually unlocks, or the reverse, creating
an imbalance.

Fix this with protecting against (de-)offloading using the barrier mutex.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index f2280616f9d5..dd9b655ae533 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -1336,13 +1336,25 @@ lazy_rcu_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long count = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Protect against concurrent (de-)offloading. Otherwise nocb locking
+	 * may be ignored or imbalanced.
+	 */
+	mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
+
 	/* Snapshot count of all CPUs */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
-		int _count = READ_ONCE(rdp->lazy_len);
+		int _count;
+
+		if (!rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp))
+			continue;
+
+		_count = READ_ONCE(rdp->lazy_len);
 
 		if (_count == 0)
 			continue;
+
 		rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags);
 		WRITE_ONCE(rdp->lazy_len, 0);
 		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
@@ -1352,6 +1364,9 @@ lazy_rcu_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		if (sc->nr_to_scan <= 0)
 			break;
 	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
+
 	return count ? count : SHRINK_STOP;
 }
 
-- 
2.34.1