[PATCH] mm/mempolicy: fix sleeping function called from invalid context

Gu Zheng
2014-06-05T08:28:52Z

When running with the kernel(3.15-rc7+), the follow bug occurs:
[ 9969.258987] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:586
[ 9969.359906] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 160655, name: python
[ 9969.441175] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 9969.488184] CPU: 26 PID: 160655 Comm: python Tainted: G A 3.15.0-rc7+ #85
[ 9969.581032] Hardware name: FUJITSU-SV PRIMEQUEST 1800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 1000 Series BIOS Version 1.39 11/16/2012
[ 9969.706052] ffffffff81a20e60 ffff8803e941fbd0 ffffffff8162f523 ffff8803e941fd18
[ 9969.795323] ffff8803e941fbe0 ffffffff8109995a ffff8803e941fc58 ffffffff81633e6c
[ 9969.884710] ffffffff811ba5dc ffff880405c6b480 ffff88041fdd90a0 0000000000002000
[ 9969.974071] Call Trace:
[ 9970.003403] [<ffffffff8162f523>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[ 9970.065074] [<ffffffff8109995a>] __might_sleep+0xfa/0x130
[ 9970.130743] [<ffffffff81633e6c>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3c/0x4f0
[ 9970.200638] [<ffffffff811ba5dc>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bc/0x210
[ 9970.272610] [<ffffffff81105807>] cpuset_mems_allowed+0x27/0x140
[ 9970.344584] [<ffffffff811b1303>] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.409282] [<ffffffff811b1385>] __mpol_dup+0xe5/0x150
[ 9970.471897] [<ffffffff811b1303>] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.536585] [<ffffffff81068c86>] ? copy_process.part.23+0x606/0x1d40
[ 9970.613763] [<ffffffff810bf28d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 9970.683660] [<ffffffff810ddddf>] ? monotonic_to_bootbased+0x2f/0x50
[ 9970.759795] [<ffffffff81068cf0>] copy_process.part.23+0x670/0x1d40
[ 9970.834885] [<ffffffff8106a598>] do_fork+0xd8/0x380
[ 9970.894375] [<ffffffff81110e4c>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x9c/0xf0
[ 9970.969470] [<ffffffff8106a8c6>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
[ 9971.030011] [<ffffffff81642009>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
[ 9971.091573] [<ffffffff81641c29>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The cause is that cpuset_mems_allowed() try to take mutex_lock(&callback_mutex)
under the rcu_read_lock(which was hold in __mpol_dup()). And in cpuset_mems_allowed(),
the access to cpuset is under rcu_read_lock, so in __mpol_dup, we can reduce the
rcu_read_lock protection region to protect the access to cpuset only in
current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(). So that we can avoid this bug.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
kernel/cpuset.c | 8 +++++++-
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 3d54c41..a735402 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -1188,7 +1188,13 @@ done:

int current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(void)
{
- return task_cs(current) == cpuset_being_rebound;
+ int ret;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ret = task_cs(current) == cpuset_being_rebound;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ return ret;
}

static int update_relax_domain_level(struct cpuset *cs, s64 val)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 78e1472..b58a9d5 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2138,7 +2138,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old)
} else
*new = *old;

- rcu_read_lock();
if (current_cpuset_is_being_rebound()) {
nodemask_t mems = cpuset_mems_allowed(current);
if (new->flags & MPOL_F_REBINDING)
@@ -2146,7 +2145,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old)
else
mpol_rebind_policy(new, &mems, MPOL_REBIND_ONCE);
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
atomic_set(&new->refcnt, 1);
return new;
}
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