linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 17/22] um: work around sched

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Message-Id: <20250407181333.3182622-17-sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Mon,  7 Apr 2025 14:13:27 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@...el.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	richard@....at,
	anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net,
	linux-um@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 17/22] um: work around sched_yield not yielding in time-travel mode

From: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 887c5c12e80c8424bd471122d2e8b6b462e12874 ]

sched_yield by a userspace may not actually cause scheduling in
time-travel mode as no time has passed. In the case seen it appears to
be a badly implemented userspace spinlock in ASAN. Unfortunately, with
time-travel it causes an extreme slowdown or even deadlock depending on
the kernel configuration (CONFIG_UML_MAX_USERSPACE_ITERATIONS).

Work around it by accounting time to the process whenever it executes a
sched_yield syscall.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@...el.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250314130815.226872-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h |  2 ++
 arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c         | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h b/arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h
index b22226634ff60..138908b999d76 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ extern void time_travel_not_configured(void);
 #define time_travel_del_event(...) time_travel_not_configured()
 #endif /* CONFIG_UML_TIME_TRAVEL_SUPPORT */
 
+extern unsigned long tt_extra_sched_jiffies;
+
 /*
  * Without CONFIG_UML_TIME_TRAVEL_SUPPORT this is a linker error if used,
  * which is intentional since we really shouldn't link it in that case.
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c b/arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c
index b09e85279d2b8..a5beaea2967ec 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ void handle_syscall(struct uml_pt_regs *r)
 		goto out;
 
 	syscall = UPT_SYSCALL_NR(r);
+
+	/*
+	 * If no time passes, then sched_yield may not actually yield, causing
+	 * broken spinlock implementations in userspace (ASAN) to hang for long
+	 * periods of time.
+	 */
+	if ((time_travel_mode == TT_MODE_INFCPU ||
+	     time_travel_mode == TT_MODE_EXTERNAL) &&
+	    syscall == __NR_sched_yield)
+		tt_extra_sched_jiffies += 1;
+
 	if (syscall >= 0 && syscall < __NR_syscalls) {
 		unsigned long ret = EXECUTE_SYSCALL(syscall, regs);
 
-- 
2.39.5