commit 6c9a27f5da9609fca46cb2b183724531b48f71ad upstream.
There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child->se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.
parent doing fork() | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
copy_process()
+ dup_task_struct()
-> parent->se is copied to child->se.
se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.
cgroup_attach_task()
+ cgroup_task_migrate()
-> parent->cgroup is updated.
+ cpu_cgroup_attach()
+ sched_move_task()
+ task_move_group_fair()
+- set_task_rq()
-> se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
are updated.
+ cgroup_fork()
-> parent->cgroup is copied to child->cgroup. (*1)
+ sched_fork()
+ task_fork_fair()
-> se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
while they point to old ones. (*2)
In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).
In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81051e3e>] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81051f25>] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
[<ffffffff81056a3a>] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
[<ffffffff81063c0b>] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
[<ffffffff8106c3c2>] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
[<ffffffff81063b49>] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
[<ffffffff8106d2f4>] do_fork+0x94/0x460
[<ffffffff81072a9e>] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
[<ffffffff81009598>] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
[<ffffffff8100b393>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 5a8e01f8fa51f5cbce8f37acc050eb2319d12956 upstream. scale_stime() silently assumes that stime < rtime, otherwise when stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations on them do not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can be bigger than rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime results in negative value. User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME values on ps/top, for example: $ ps aux | grep rcu root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcuc/0] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcub/0] root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt] root 11 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:02 [rcuop/0] root 12 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1] root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt] or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259 Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130904131602.GC2564@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule(); can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition, it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending). However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with "if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section. The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already does by the same reason. We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(), for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change the default implementation. While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers. Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for prepare_to_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 3105b86a9fee ("mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of
NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG") defined numabalancing_enabled to
control the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing, but it
is never used.
I believe the intention was to use this in place of sched_feat_numa(NUMA).
Currently, if SCHED_DEBUG is not defined, sched_feat_numa(NUMA) will
never be changed from the initial "false".
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue path. However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not subject to these updates as they are only put/picked. Unfortunately, when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a potential loss of fairness. To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()]. Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When building the htmldocs (in verbose mode), scripts/kernel-doc reports the follwing type of warnings: Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:936): No description found for return value of 'task_curr' ... Fix those by: - adding the missing descriptions - using "Return" sections for the descriptions Signed-off-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373654747-2389-1-git-send-email-yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com [ While at it, fix the cpupri_set() explanation. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
David reported that the HRTICK sched feature was borken; which was enough motivation for me to finally fix it ;-) We should not allow hrtimer code to do softirq wakeups while holding scheduler locks. The hrtimer code only needs this when we accidentally try to program an expired time. We don't much care about those anyway since we have the regular tick to fall back to. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130628091853.GE29209@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timer changes contain:
- posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases
- sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
duplication by other architectures
- alarm timer updates
- clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities
- clocksource/events support for new hardware
- precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)
- generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities
- the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place
The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
the relevant maintainers. Though this results in an handful of
trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
tree merge dependencies.
The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
fixes plus the posix timer lot. The latter was in akpms queue and
next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
collected them last minute."
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
hrtimer: Remove unused variable
hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
...