While integrating rseq into glibc and replacing glibc's sched_getcpu
implementation with rseq, glibc's tests discovered an issue with
incorrect __rseq_abi.cpu_id field value right after the first time
a newly created process issues sched_setaffinity.

For the records, it triggers after building glibc and running tests, and
then issuing:

  for x in {1..2000} ; do posix/tst-affinity-static  & done

and shows up as:

error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 2, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0
error: Unexpected CPU 138, expected 0

This is caused by the scheduler invoking __set_task_cpu() directly from
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task(), thus bypassing rseq_migrate() which
is done by set_task_cpu().

Add the missing rseq_migrate() to both functions. The only other direct
use of __set_task_cpu() is done by init_idle(), which does not involve a
user-space task.

Based on my testing with the glibc test-case, just adding rseq_migrate()
to wake_up_new_task() is sufficient to fix the observed issue. Also add
it to sched_fork() to keep things consistent.

The reason why this never triggered so far with the rseq/basic_test
selftest is unclear.

The current use of sched_getcpu(3) does not typically require it to be
always accurate. However, use of the __rseq_abi.cpu_id field within rseq
critical sections requires it to be accurate. If it is not accurate, it
can cause corruption in the per-cpu data targeted by rseq critical
sections in user-space.

Link: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-July/115816.html
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
Tested-By: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <p...@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com>
Cc: Neel Natu <neeln...@google.com>
Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ca5db40392d4..86a855bd4d90 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2962,6 +2962,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct 
task_struct *p)
         * Silence PROVE_RCU.
         */
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+       rseq_migrate(p);
        /*
         * We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
         * so use __set_task_cpu().
@@ -3026,6 +3027,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
         * as we're not fully set-up yet.
         */
        p->recent_used_cpu = task_cpu(p);
+       rseq_migrate(p);
        __set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, task_cpu(p), SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0));
 #endif
        rq = __task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
-- 
2.17.1

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