[PATCH 13/23] vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update

[Frederic Weisbecker]

get_vtime_delta() must be called under the task vtime_seqlock
with the code that does the cputime accounting flush.

Otherwise the cputime reader can be fooled and run into
a race where it sees the snapshot update but misses the
cputime flush. As a result it can report a cputime that is
way too short.

Fix vtime_account_user() that wasn't complying to that rule.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 5f273b47..b62d5c0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -683,9 +683,10 @@ void vtime_account_irq_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 void vtime_account_user(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	cputime_t delta_cpu = get_vtime_delta(tsk);
+	cputime_t delta_cpu;
 
 	write_seqlock(&tsk->vtime_seqlock);
+	delta_cpu = get_vtime_delta(tsk);
 	tsk->vtime_snap_whence = VTIME_SYS;
 	account_user_time(tsk, delta_cpu, cputime_to_scaled(delta_cpu));
 	write_sequnlock(&tsk->vtime_seqlock);
-- 
1.7.5.4

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