1. 07 Oct, 2016 1 commit
    • Joonwoo Park's avatar
      cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and cpuset_hotplug_work · 8132ffc9
      Joonwoo Park authored
      commit 28b89b9e upstream.
      
      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
         <snip>
         Process taskset (pid: 1420, stack limit = 0xffffffc06e124020)
         Call trace:
         [<ffffffc0001389b0>] guarantee_online_cpus+0x2c/0x58
         [<ffffffc00013b208>] cpuset_cpus_allowed+0x4c/0x6c
         [<ffffffc0000d61f0>] sched_setaffinity+0xc0/0x1ac
         [<ffffffc0000d6374>] SyS_sched_setaffinity+0x98/0xac
         [<ffffffc000085cb0>] 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: default avatarJoonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      8132ffc9
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