[PATCH -v2 2/9] sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 26 2016 - 08:45:10 EST


A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30
PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted

Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80
[<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30
[<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260
[<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20
[<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900
[<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0
[<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190
[<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60
[<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390
[<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0
[<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180

This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi()
are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while
rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but
not holding pi_lock.

In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer
cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task()
to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio()
which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task"
can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock.

Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

include/linux/init_task.h | 1 +
include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++
include/linux/sched/rt.h | 1 +
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group
#ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
# define INIT_RT_MUTEXES(tsk) \
.pi_waiters = RB_ROOT, \
+ .pi_top_task = NULL, \
.pi_waiters_leftmost = NULL,
#else
# define INIT_RT_MUTEXES(tsk)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1716,6 +1716,8 @@ struct task_struct {
/* PI waiters blocked on a rt_mutex held by this task */
struct rb_root pi_waiters;
struct rb_node *pi_waiters_leftmost;
+ /* Updated under owner's pi_lock and rq lock */
+ struct task_struct *pi_top_task;
/* Deadlock detection and priority inheritance handling */
struct rt_mutex_waiter *pi_blocked_on;
#endif
--- a/include/linux/sched/rt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/rt.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ static inline int rt_task(struct task_st
extern int rt_mutex_getprio(struct task_struct *p);
extern void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio);
extern int rt_mutex_get_effective_prio(struct task_struct *task, int newprio);
+extern void rt_mutex_update_top_task(struct task_struct *p);
extern struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *task);
extern void rt_mutex_adjust_pi(struct task_struct *p);
static inline bool tsk_is_pi_blocked(struct task_struct *tsk)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1397,6 +1397,7 @@ static void rt_mutex_init_task(struct ta
#ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
p->pi_waiters = RB_ROOT;
p->pi_waiters_leftmost = NULL;
+ p->pi_top_task = NULL;
p->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
#endif
}
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -256,6 +256,16 @@ rt_mutex_dequeue_pi(struct task_struct *
RB_CLEAR_NODE(&waiter->pi_tree_entry);
}

+void rt_mutex_update_top_task(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ if (!task_has_pi_waiters(p)) {
+ p->pi_top_task = NULL;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ p->pi_top_task = task_top_pi_waiter(p)->task;
+}
+
/*
* Calculate task priority from the waiter tree priority
*
@@ -273,10 +283,7 @@ int rt_mutex_getprio(struct task_struct

struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *task)
{
- if (likely(!task_has_pi_waiters(task)))
- return NULL;
-
- return task_top_pi_waiter(task)->task;
+ return task->pi_top_task;
}

/*
@@ -285,12 +292,12 @@ struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_tas
*/
int rt_mutex_get_effective_prio(struct task_struct *task, int newprio)
{
- if (!task_has_pi_waiters(task))
+ struct task_struct *top_task = rt_mutex_get_top_task(task);
+
+ if (!top_task)
return newprio;

- if (task_top_pi_waiter(task)->task->prio <= newprio)
- return task_top_pi_waiter(task)->task->prio;
- return newprio;
+ return min(top_task->prio, newprio);
}

/*
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3669,6 +3669,8 @@ void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct
goto out_unlock;
}

+ rt_mutex_update_top_task(p);
+
trace_sched_pi_setprio(p, prio);
oldprio = p->prio;