[PATCH 3.4 42/92] sched/core: Fix TASK_DEAD race in finish_task_switch()

[lizf]

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.4.112-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 95913d97914f44db2b81271c2e2ebd4d2ac2df83 upstream.

So the problem this patch is trying to address is as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1

        context_switch(A, B)
                                        ttwu(A)
                                          LOCK A->pi_lock
                                          A->on_cpu == 0
        finish_task_switch(A)
          prev_state = A->state  <-.
          WMB                      |
          A->on_cpu = 0;           |
          UNLOCK rq0->lock         |
                                   |    context_switch(C, A)
                                   `--  A->state = TASK_DEAD
          prev_state == TASK_DEAD
            put_task_struct(A)
                                        context_switch(A, C)
                                        finish_task_switch(A)
                                          A->state == TASK_DEAD
                                            put_task_struct(A)

The argument being that the WMB will allow the load of A->state on CPU0
to cross over and observe CPU1's store of A->state, which will then
result in a double-drop and use-after-free.

Now the comment states (and this was true once upon a long time ago)
that we need to observe A->state while holding rq->lock because that
will order us against the wakeup; however the wakeup will not in fact
acquire (that) rq->lock; it takes A->pi_lock these days.

We can obviously fix this by upgrading the WMB to an MB, but that is
expensive, so we'd rather avoid that.

The alternative this patch takes is: smp_store_release(&A->on_cpu, 0),
which avoids the MB on some archs, but not important ones like ARM.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: will.deacon@xxxxxxx
Fixes: e4a52bcb9a18 ("sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150929124509.GG3816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: use smb_mb() instead of smp_store_release(), which
 is not defined in 3.4.y]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c  | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 15be435..609a226 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1949,11 +1949,11 @@ static void finish_task_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 	 * If a task dies, then it sets TASK_DEAD in tsk->state and calls
 	 * schedule one last time. The schedule call will never return, and
 	 * the scheduled task must drop that reference.
-	 * The test for TASK_DEAD must occur while the runqueue locks are
-	 * still held, otherwise prev could be scheduled on another cpu, die
-	 * there before we look at prev->state, and then the reference would
-	 * be dropped twice.
-	 *		Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+	 *
+	 * We must observe prev->state before clearing prev->on_cpu (in
+	 * finish_lock_switch), otherwise a concurrent wakeup can get prev
+	 * running on another CPU and we could rave with its RUNNING -> DEAD
+	 * transition, resulting in a double drop.
 	 */
 	prev_state = prev->state;
 	finish_arch_switch(prev);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 4a5e739..44f4058 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -702,8 +702,10 @@ static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 	 * After ->on_cpu is cleared, the task can be moved to a different CPU.
 	 * We must ensure this doesn't happen until the switch is completely
 	 * finished.
+	 *
+	 * Pairs with the control dependency and rmb in try_to_wake_up().
 	 */
-	smp_wmb();
+	smp_mb();
 	prev->on_cpu = 0;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
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