From 28b89b9e6f7b6c8fef7b3af39828722bca20cfee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joonwoo Park Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:14:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and cpuset_hotplug_work A discrepancy between cpu_online_mask and cpuset's effective_cpus mask is inevitable during hotplug since cpuset defers updating of effective_cpus mask using a workqueue, during which time nothing prevents the system from more hotplug operations. For that reason guarantee_online_cpus() walks up the cpuset hierarchy until it finds an intersection under the assumption that top cpuset's effective_cpus mask intersects with cpu_online_mask even with such a race occurring. However a sequence of CPU hotplugs can open a time window, during which none of the effective CPUs in the top cpuset intersect with cpu_online_mask. For example when there are 4 possible CPUs 0-3 and only CPU0 is online: ======================== =========================== cpu_online_mask top_cpuset.effective_cpus ======================== =========================== echo 1 > cpu2/online. CPU hotplug notifier woke up hotplug work but not yet scheduled. [0,2] [0] echo 0 > cpu0/online. The workqueue is still runnable. [2] [0] ======================== =========================== Now there is no intersection between cpu_online_mask and top_cpuset.effective_cpus. Thus invoking sys_sched_setaffinity() at this moment can cause following: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000d0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ Kernel BUG at ffffffc0001389b0 [verbose debug info unavailable] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 1420 Comm: taskset Tainted: G W 4.4.8+ #98 task: ffffffc06a5c4880 ti: ffffffc06e124000 task.ti: ffffffc06e124000 PC is at guarantee_online_cpus+0x2c/0x58 LR is at cpuset_cpus_allowed+0x4c/0x6c Process taskset (pid: 1420, stack limit = 0xffffffc06e124020) Call trace: [] guarantee_online_cpus+0x2c/0x58 [] cpuset_cpus_allowed+0x4c/0x6c [] sched_setaffinity+0xc0/0x1ac [] SyS_sched_setaffinity+0x98/0xac [] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28 The top cpuset's effective_cpus are guaranteed to be identical to cpu_online_mask eventually. Hence fall back to cpu_online_mask when there is no intersection between top cpuset's effective_cpus and cpu_online_mask. Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park Acked-by: Li Zefan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: # 3.17+ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/cpuset.c | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c index c27e53326bef..c08585ad996b 100644 --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -325,8 +325,7 @@ static struct file_system_type cpuset_fs_type = { /* * Return in pmask the portion of a cpusets's cpus_allowed that * are online. If none are online, walk up the cpuset hierarchy - * until we find one that does have some online cpus. The top - * cpuset always has some cpus online. + * until we find one that does have some online cpus. * * One way or another, we guarantee to return some non-empty subset * of cpu_online_mask. @@ -335,8 +334,20 @@ static struct file_system_type cpuset_fs_type = { */ static void guarantee_online_cpus(struct cpuset *cs, struct cpumask *pmask) { - while (!cpumask_intersects(cs->effective_cpus, cpu_online_mask)) + while (!cpumask_intersects(cs->effective_cpus, cpu_online_mask)) { cs = parent_cs(cs); + if (unlikely(!cs)) { + /* + * The top cpuset doesn't have any online cpu as a + * consequence of a race between cpuset_hotplug_work + * and cpu hotplug notifier. But we know the top + * cpuset's effective_cpus is on its way to to be + * identical to cpu_online_mask. + */ + cpumask_copy(pmask, cpu_online_mask); + return; + } + } cpumask_and(pmask, cs->effective_cpus, cpu_online_mask); } -- 2.20.1