linux-kernel - [patch 06/20] posix-timers: Annotate concurrent access to k_itimer::it

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Message-ID: <20230425183313.143596887@linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:49:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        syzbot+5c54bd3eb218bb595aa9@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: [patch 06/20] posix-timers: Annotate concurrent access to k_itimer::it_signal

k_itimer::it_signal is read lockless in the RCU protected hash lookup, but
it can be written concurrently in the timer_create() and timer_delete()
path. Annotate these places with READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ static struct k_itimer *__posix_timers_f
 {
 	struct k_itimer *timer;
 
-	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(timer, head, t_hash,
-				 lockdep_is_held(&hash_lock)) {
-		if ((timer->it_signal == sig) && (timer->it_id == id))
+	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(timer, head, t_hash, lockdep_is_held(&hash_lock)) {
+		/* timer->it_signal can be set concurrently */
+		if ((READ_ONCE(timer->it_signal) == sig) && (timer->it_id == id))
 			return timer;
 	}
 	return NULL;
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int do_timer_create(clockid_t whi
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	/* This makes the timer valid in the hash table */
-	new_timer->it_signal = current->signal;
+	WRITE_ONCE(new_timer->it_signal, current->signal);
 	list_add(&new_timer->list, &current->signal->posix_timers);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
@@ -1051,10 +1051,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(timer_delete, timer_t, t
 	list_del(&timer->list);
 	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	/*
-	 * This keeps any tasks waiting on the spin lock from thinking
-	 * they got something (see the lock code above).
+	 * A concurrent lookup could check timer::it_signal lockless. It
+	 * will reevaluate with timer::it_lock held and observe the NULL.
 	 */
-	timer->it_signal = NULL;
+	WRITE_ONCE(timer->it_signal, NULL);
 
 	unlock_timer(timer, flags);
 	release_posix_timer(timer, IT_ID_SET);