Re: [PATCH] padata: avoid race in reordering

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 01:53:15PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Herbert applied this to his tree. It's probably a good stable
> candidate, since it's a two line change to fix a race condition.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Under extremely heavy uses of padata, crashes occur, and with list
> >> debugging turned on, this happens instead:
> >>
> >> [87487.298728] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 882 at lib/list_debug.c:33
> >> __list_add+0xae/0x130
> >> [87487.301868] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next
> >> (ffffb17abfc043d0), but was ffff8dba70872c80. (prev=ffff8dba70872b00).
> >> [87487.339011]  [<ffffffff9a53d075>] dump_stack+0x68/0xa3
> >> [87487.342198]  [<ffffffff99e119a1>] ? console_unlock+0x281/0x6d0
> >> [87487.345364]  [<ffffffff99d6b91f>] __warn+0xff/0x140
> >> [87487.348513]  [<ffffffff99d6b9aa>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
> >> [87487.351659]  [<ffffffff9a58b5de>] __list_add+0xae/0x130
> >> [87487.354772]  [<ffffffff9add5094>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x64/0x70
> >> [87487.357915]  [<ffffffff99eefd66>] padata_reorder+0x1e6/0x420
> >> [87487.361084]  [<ffffffff99ef0055>] padata_do_serial+0xa5/0x120
> >>
> >> padata_reorder calls list_add_tail with the list to which its adding
> >> locked, which seems correct:
> >>
> >> spin_lock(&squeue->serial.lock);
> >> list_add_tail(&padata->list, &squeue->serial.list);
> >> spin_unlock(&squeue->serial.lock);
> >>
> >> This therefore leaves only place where such inconsistency could occur:
> >> if padata->list is added at the same time on two different threads.
> >> This pdata pointer comes from the function call to
> >> padata_get_next(pd), which has in it the following block:
> >>
> >> next_queue = per_cpu_ptr(pd->pqueue, cpu);
> >> padata = NULL;
> >> reorder = &next_queue->reorder;
> >> if (!list_empty(&reorder->list)) {
> >>       padata = list_entry(reorder->list.next,
> >>                           struct padata_priv, list);
> >>       spin_lock(&reorder->lock);
> >>       list_del_init(&padata->list);
> >>       atomic_dec(&pd->reorder_objects);
> >>       spin_unlock(&reorder->lock);
> >>
> >>       pd->processed++;
> >>
> >>       goto out;
> >> }
> >> out:
> >> return padata;
> >>
> >> I strongly suspect that the problem here is that two threads can race
> >> on reorder list. Even though the deletion is locked, call to
> >> list_entry is not locked, which means it's feasible that two threads
> >> pick up the same padata object and subsequently call list_add_tail on
> >> them at the same time. The fix is thus be hoist that lock outside of
> >> that block.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Patch applied.  Thanks.

Any clue as to what the git commit id is?

thanks,

greg k-h