linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched: fix warning in sched

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Message-ID: <20240829220427.2764399-1-joshdon@google.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:04:27 -0700
From: Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, 
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, 
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, 
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity

Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included
a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.

Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the
task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we
have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN
set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with
the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its
trivial to create this condition.

Reproduced the warning by the following setup:

- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup
- another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1
- another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2

Fixes: 8f9ea86fdf99b ("sched: Always preserve the user requested cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
---
 kernel/sched/syscalls.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
index 4fae3cf25a3a..3a88f7c0cb69 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ int __sched_setaffinity(struct task_struct *p, struct affinity_context *ctx)
 			bool empty = !cpumask_and(new_mask, new_mask,
 						  ctx->user_mask);
 
-			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(empty))
+			if (empty)
 				cpumask_copy(new_mask, cpus_allowed);
 		}
 		__set_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, ctx);
-- 
2.46.0.469.g59c65b2a67-goog