[tip:sched/core] sched/core: Fix unserialized r-m-w scribbling stuff

From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 06 2016 - 13:48:57 EST


Commit-ID: be958bdc96f18bc1356177bbb79d46ea0c037b96
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/be958bdc96f18bc1356177bbb79d46ea0c037b96
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:02:07 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:01:07 +0100

sched/core: Fix unserialized r-m-w scribbling stuff

Some of the sched bitfieds (notably sched_reset_on_fork) can be set
on other than current, this can cause the r-m-w to race with other
updates.

Since all the sched bits are serialized by scheduler locks, pull them
in a separate word.

Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151125150207.GM11639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9cf9dd1..fa39434 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1455,14 +1455,15 @@ struct task_struct {
/* Used for emulating ABI behavior of previous Linux versions */
unsigned int personality;

- unsigned in_execve:1; /* Tell the LSMs that the process is doing an
- * execve */
- unsigned in_iowait:1;
-
- /* Revert to default priority/policy when forking */
+ /* scheduler bits, serialized by scheduler locks */
unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
unsigned sched_contributes_to_load:1;
unsigned sched_migrated:1;
+ unsigned :0; /* force alignment to the next boundary */
+
+ /* unserialized, strictly 'current' */
+ unsigned in_execve:1; /* bit to tell LSMs we're in execve */
+ unsigned in_iowait:1;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
unsigned memcg_may_oom:1;
#endif
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