Commit-ID:  9c368b5b6eccce1cbd7f68142106b3b4ddb1c5b5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/9c368b5b6eccce1cbd7f68142106b3b4ddb1c5b5
Author:     Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:12:15 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:35:17 +0200

sched, time: Fix lock inversion in thread_group_cputime()

The sig->stats_lock nests inside the tasklist_lock and the
sighand->siglock in __exit_signal and wait_task_zombie.

However, both of those locks can be taken from irq context,
which means we need to use the interrupt safe variant of
read_seqbegin_or_lock. This blocks interrupts when the "lock"
branch is taken (seq is odd), preventing the lock inversion.

On the first (lockless) pass through the loop, irqs are not
blocked.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: pra...@redhat.com
Cc: o...@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527535-9814-3-git-send-email-r...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/cputime.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 2b57031..64492df 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -289,13 +289,14 @@ void thread_group_cputime(struct task_struct *tsk, struct 
task_cputime *times)
        cputime_t utime, stime;
        struct task_struct *t;
        unsigned int seq, nextseq;
+       unsigned long flags;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        /* Attempt a lockless read on the first round. */
        nextseq = 0;
        do {
                seq = nextseq;
-               read_seqbegin_or_lock(&sig->stats_lock, &seq);
+               flags = read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave(&sig->stats_lock, &seq);
                times->utime = sig->utime;
                times->stime = sig->stime;
                times->sum_exec_runtime = sig->sum_sched_runtime;
@@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ void thread_group_cputime(struct task_struct *tsk, struct 
task_cputime *times)
                /* If lockless access failed, take the lock. */
                nextseq = 1;
        } while (need_seqretry(&sig->stats_lock, seq));
-       done_seqretry(&sig->stats_lock, seq);
+       done_seqretry_irqrestore(&sig->stats_lock, seq, flags);
        rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
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