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sched: Fix unreliable rseq cpu_id for new tasks

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While integrating rseq into glibc and replacing glibc's sched_getcpu
implementation with rseq, glibc's tests discovered an issue with
incorrect __rseq_abi.cpu_id field value right after the first time
a newly created process issues sched_setaffinity.

For the records, it triggers after building glibc and running tests, and
then issuing:

  for x in {1..2000} ; do posix/tst-affinity-static  & done

and shows up as:

error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0

This is caused by the scheduler invoking __set_task_cpu() directly from
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task(), thus bypassing rseq_migrate() which
is done by set_task_cpu().

Add the missing rseq_migrate() to both functions. The only other direct
use of __set_task_cpu() is done by init_idle(), which does not involve a
user-space task.

Based on my testing with the glibc test-case, just adding rseq_migrate()
to wake_up_new_task() is sufficient to fix the observed issue. Also add
it to sched_fork() to keep things consistent.

The reason why this never triggered so far with the rseq/basic_test
selftest is unclear.

The current use of sched_getcpu(3) does not typically require it to be
always accurate. However, use of the __rseq_abi.cpu_id field within rseq
critical sections requires it to be accurate. If it is not accurate, it
can cause corruption in the per-cpu data targeted by rseq critical
sections in user-space.

Reported-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707201505.2632-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-06 16:49:10 -04:00
committed by Peter Zijlstra
parent dbfb089d36
commit ce3614daab
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@@ -2965,6 +2965,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
* Silence PROVE_RCU.
*/
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
rseq_migrate(p);
/*
* We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
* so use __set_task_cpu().
@@ -3029,6 +3030,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
* as we're not fully set-up yet.
*/
p->recent_used_cpu = task_cpu(p);
rseq_migrate(p);
__set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, task_cpu(p), SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0));
#endif
rq = __task_rq_lock(p, &rf);