[tip: sched/core] sched,psi: Handle potential task count underflow bugs more gracefully

From: tip-bot2 for Charan Teja Reddy
Date: Thu Apr 22 2021 - 03:36:13 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 9d10a13d1e4c349b76f1c675a874a7f981d6d3b4
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/9d10a13d1e4c349b76f1c675a874a7f981d6d3b4
Author: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:32:16 +05:30
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:55:41 +02:00

sched,psi: Handle potential task count underflow bugs more gracefully

psi_group_cpu->tasks, represented by the unsigned int, stores the
number of tasks that could be stalled on a psi resource(io/mem/cpu).
Decrementing these counters at zero leads to wrapping which further
leads to the psi_group_cpu->state_mask is being set with the
respective pressure state. This could result into the unnecessary time
sampling for the pressure state thus cause the spurious psi events.
This can further lead to wrong actions being taken at the user land
based on these psi events.

Though psi_bug is set under these conditions but that just for debug
purpose. Fix it by decrementing the ->tasks count only when it is
non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1618585336-37219-1-git-send-email-charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index d1212f1..db27b69 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -699,14 +699,15 @@ static void psi_group_change(struct psi_group *group, int cpu,
for (t = 0, m = clear; m; m &= ~(1 << t), t++) {
if (!(m & (1 << t)))
continue;
- if (groupc->tasks[t] == 0 && !psi_bug) {
+ if (groupc->tasks[t]) {
+ groupc->tasks[t]--;
+ } else if (!psi_bug) {
printk_deferred(KERN_ERR "psi: task underflow! cpu=%d t=%d tasks=[%u %u %u %u] clear=%x set=%x\n",
cpu, t, groupc->tasks[0],
groupc->tasks[1], groupc->tasks[2],
groupc->tasks[3], clear, set);
psi_bug = 1;
}
- groupc->tasks[t]--;
}

for (t = 0; set; set &= ~(1 << t), t++)