Re: [PATCH] sched: fix a potential divide error

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> wrote:

> We meet a divide error on 3.10.0 kernel, the error message is bellow:
> 
> [499992.287996] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [499992.297796] do nothing after die!
> [499992.299108] Modules linked in: signo_catch macvlan binfmt_misc
> ip_set_hash_netport ip_set_hash_ipport vport_vxlan ipt_REJECT
> xt_statistic xt_physdev xt_nat xt_recent xt_mark xt_comment ...
> [499992.312751] CPU: 8 PID: 23352 Comm: bash Tainted: G ----V-------   3.10.0+ #1
> [499992.314308] Hardware name: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS
> rel-1.9.1-0-gb3ef39f-20170329_185309-build9a64a246a231 04/01/2014
> [499992.317411] task: ffff880033fc9700 ti: ffff8807fed60000 task.ti:ffff8807fed60000
> [499992.318967] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c15c2>]  [<ffffffff810c15c2>] task_numa_fault+0x1c2/0xbb0
> [499992.320515] RSP: 0000:ffff8807fed63d38  EFLAGS: 00010246
> [499992.322018] RAX: 0000002b7efd0000 RBX: ffff880033fc9700 RCX:0000000000000003
> [499992.323563] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000400 RDI:ffffffff81a80f60
> [499992.325052] RBP: ffff8807fed63db8 R08: ffffffff81a80f68 R09:0000000000000000
> [499992.326531] R10: ffff88083ffda000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:0000000000000424
> [499992.327987] R13: 00000000002b7efd R14: 0000000000000000 R15:ffffea001ea42a00
> [499992.329420] FS:  00007fa01a3b7740(0000) GS:ffff88103ec00000(0000)knlGS:0000000000000000
> [499992.330866] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [499992.332302] CR2: 0000000000ff1fb0 CR3: 00000007ff1d1000 CR4:00000000003407e0
> [499992.333763] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:0000000000000000
> [499992.335187] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:0000000000000400
> [499992.336595] Stack:
> [499992.337974]  0000000000000000 00000001bc9598a8 ffffea001ea42a00 0000000100000001
> [499992.339374]  0000000300000001 0000000000000001 ffffea001ea42a00 ffff8807fed63db8
> [499992.340768]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000bc9598a8 0000000000000001
> [499992.342148] Call Trace:
> [499992.343494]  [<ffffffff8119ab62>] do_numa_page+0x162/0x1f0
> [499992.344831]  [<ffffffff8119bde7>] handle_mm_fault+0x627/0xf50
> [499992.346145]  [<ffffffff8164e486>] __do_page_fault+0x166/0x470
> [499992.347442]  [<ffffffff8164e853>] trace_do_page_fault+0x43/0x110
> [499992.348711]  [<ffffffff8164df29>] do_async_page_fault+0x29/0xe0
> [499992.349948]  [<ffffffff8164a9f8>] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30
> [499992.351149] Code: 00 3d 00 04 00 00 44 0f 4e d8 41 81 fb 00 04 00 00
> 0f 84 67 07 00 00 4c 89 e8 49 83 c6 01 31 d2 48 c1 e0 10 49 83 c4 01 45
> 31 c9 <49> f7 f6 48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 b0 00 00 00 00 49 89
> [499992.353707] RIP  [<ffffffff810c15c2>] task_numa_fault+0x1c2/0xbb0
> [499992.354927]  RSP <ffff8807fed63d38>
> [499992.358114] ---[ end trace 4f2465cac18ff65e ]---
> [499992.359304] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> 
> sched_clock_cpu may not be consistent bwtwen cpus. If a task migrate
> to another cpu, the se.exec_start was set to that cpu's rq_clock_task
> by update_stats_curr_start(). Which may not be monotonic.
> 
> update_stats_curr_start
>   <- set_next_entity
>      <- set_curr_task_fair
>         <- sched_move_task
> 
> So, if  now - p->last_task_numa_placement is -1, then (*period + 1) is
> 0, and divide error was triggerred at the div operation:
>   task_numa_placement:
>     runtime = numa_get_avg_runtime(p, &period);
>     f_weight = div64_u64(runtime << 16, period + 1);  // divide error here
> 
> In this patch, we make sure period is not less than 0 to avoid this
> divide error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40bd1e27b1b7..f2abb258fc85 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2007,6 +2007,10 @@ static u64 numa_get_avg_runtime(struct task_struct *p, u64 *period)
>  	if (p->last_task_numa_placement) {
>  		delta = runtime - p->last_sum_exec_runtime;
>  		*period = now - p->last_task_numa_placement;
> +
> +		/* Avoid backward, and prevent potential divide error */
> +		if ((s64)*period < 0)
> +			*period = 0;
>  	} else {
>  		delta = p->se.avg.load_sum;
>  		*period = LOAD_AVG_MAX;

I've put this into sched/urgent, because this can be triggered in the 
wild it appears.

Thanks,

	Ingo