rhashtable: Bounce deferred worker kick through irq_work

Inserts past 75% load call schedule_work(&ht->run_work) to kick an
async resize. If a caller holds a raw spinlock (e.g. an
insecure_elasticity user), schedule_work() under that lock records

  caller_lock -> pool->lock -> pi_lock -> rq->__lock

A cycle forms if any of these locks is acquired in the reverse
direction elsewhere. sched_ext, the only current insecure_elasticity
user, hits this: it holds scx_sched_lock across rhashtable inserts of
sub-schedulers, while scx_bypass() takes rq->__lock -> scx_sched_lock.
Exercising the resize path produces:

  Chain exists of:
    &pool->lock --> &rq->__lock --> scx_sched_lock

Bounce the kick from the insert paths through irq_work so
schedule_work() runs from hard IRQ context with the caller's lock no
longer held. rht_deferred_worker()'s self-rearm on error stays on
schedule_work(&ht->run_work) - the worker runs in process context with
no caller lock held, and keeping the self-requeue on @run_work lets
cancel_work_sync() in rhashtable_free_and_destroy() drain it.

v3: Keep rht_deferred_worker()'s self-rearm on schedule_work(&run_work).
    Routing it through irq_work in v2 broke cancel_work_sync()'s
    self-requeue handling - an irq_work queued after irq_work_sync()
    returned but while cancel_work_sync() was still waiting could fire
    post-teardown.

v2: Bounce unconditionally instead of gating on insecure_elasticity,
    as suggested by Herbert.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index fb2b7bc137ba..7a67ef5b67b6 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -441,10 +441,33 @@ static void rht_deferred_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	mutex_unlock(&ht->mutex);
 
+	/*
+	 * Re-arm via @run_work, not @run_irq_work.
+	 * rhashtable_free_and_destroy() drains async work as irq_work_sync()
+	 * followed by cancel_work_sync(). If this site queued irq_work while
+	 * cancel_work_sync() was waiting for us, irq_work_sync() would already
+	 * have returned and the stale irq_work could fire post-teardown.
+	 * cancel_work_sync() natively handles self-requeue on @run_work.
+	 */
 	if (err)
 		schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Insert-path callers can run under a raw spinlock (e.g. an insecure_elasticity
+ * user). Calling schedule_work() under that lock records caller_lock ->
+ * pool->lock -> pi_lock -> rq->__lock, closing a locking cycle if any of
+ * these is acquired in the reverse direction elsewhere. Bounce through
+ * irq_work so the schedule_work() runs with the caller's lock no longer held.
+ */
+static void rht_deferred_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
+{
+	struct rhashtable *ht = container_of(irq_work, struct rhashtable,
+					     run_irq_work);
+
+	schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
+}
+
 static int rhashtable_insert_rehash(struct rhashtable *ht,
 				    struct bucket_table *tbl)
 {
@@ -477,7 +500,7 @@ static int rhashtable_insert_rehash(struct rhashtable *ht,
 		if (err == -EEXIST)
 			err = 0;
 	} else
-		schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
+		irq_work_queue(&ht->run_irq_work);
 
 	return err;
 
@@ -488,7 +511,7 @@ fail:
 
 	/* Schedule async rehash to retry allocation in process context. */
 	if (err == -ENOMEM)
-		schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
+		irq_work_queue(&ht->run_irq_work);
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -630,7 +653,7 @@ static void *rhashtable_try_insert(struct rhashtable *ht, const void *key,
 			rht_unlock(tbl, bkt, flags);
 
 			if (inserted && rht_grow_above_75(ht, tbl))
-				schedule_work(&ht->run_work);
+				irq_work_queue(&ht->run_irq_work);
 		}
 	} while (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new_tbl));
 
@@ -1085,6 +1108,7 @@ int rhashtable_init_noprof(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(ht->tbl, tbl);
 
 	INIT_WORK(&ht->run_work, rht_deferred_worker);
+	init_irq_work(&ht->run_irq_work, rht_deferred_irq_work);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1150,6 +1174,7 @@ void rhashtable_free_and_destroy(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	struct bucket_table *tbl, *next_tbl;
 	unsigned int i;
 
+	irq_work_sync(&ht->run_irq_work);
 	cancel_work_sync(&ht->run_work);
 
 	mutex_lock(&ht->mutex);