sched/core: Fix an SMP ordering race in try_to_wake_up() vs. schedule()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:14:13 +0000 (14:14 +0200)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:04:07 +0000 (09:04 +0100)
commitc73d76df37ce1fa2d96e6c97e44ba5b4edc8eb7f
tree35a8bd3472a8b9c0db6580bd93e9fb606f07f106
parent6a94ced1bf392ce674e04ccfe34b860e970dde4a
sched/core: Fix an SMP ordering race in try_to_wake_up() vs. schedule()

commit ecf7d01c229d11a44609c0067889372c91fb4f36 upstream.

Oleg noticed that its possible to falsely observe p->on_cpu == 0 such
that we'll prematurely continue with the wakeup and effectively run p on
two CPUs at the same time.

Even though the overlap is very limited; the task is in the middle of
being scheduled out; it could still result in corruption of the
scheduler data structures.

        CPU0                            CPU1

        set_current_state(...)

        <preempt_schedule>
          context_switch(X, Y)
            prepare_lock_switch(Y)
              Y->on_cpu = 1;
            finish_lock_switch(X)
              store_release(X->on_cpu, 0);

                                        try_to_wake_up(X)
                                          LOCK(p->pi_lock);

                                          t = X->on_cpu; // 0

          context_switch(Y, X)
            prepare_lock_switch(X)
              X->on_cpu = 1;
            finish_lock_switch(Y)
              store_release(Y->on_cpu, 0);
        </preempt_schedule>

        schedule();
          deactivate_task(X);
          X->on_rq = 0;

                                          if (X->on_rq) // false

                                          if (t) while (X->on_cpu)
                                            cpu_relax();

          context_switch(X, ..)
            finish_lock_switch(X)
              store_release(X->on_cpu, 0);

Avoid the load of X->on_cpu being hoisted over the X->on_rq load.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
kernel/sched/core.c