Re: [PATCH tip/sched/core] swait: Remove the lockless swait_active() check in swake_up*()

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 09:47:35PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Steven Rostedt reported a potential race in RCU core because of
> swake_up():
> 
>         CPU0                            CPU1
>         ----                            ----
>                                 __call_rcu_core() {
> 
>                                  spin_lock(rnp_root)
>                                  need_wake = __rcu_start_gp() {
>                                   rcu_start_gp_advanced() {
>                                    gp_flags = FLAG_INIT
>                                   }
>                                  }
> 
>  rcu_gp_kthread() {
>    swait_event_interruptible(wq,
>         gp_flags & FLAG_INIT) {
>    spin_lock(q->lock)
> 
>                                 *fetch wq->task_list here! *
> 
>    list_add(wq->task_list, q->task_list)
>    spin_unlock(q->lock);
> 
>    *fetch old value of gp_flags here *
> 
>                                  spin_unlock(rnp_root)
> 
>                                  rcu_gp_kthread_wake() {
>                                   swake_up(wq) {
>                                    swait_active(wq) {
>                                     list_empty(wq->task_list)
> 
>                                    } * return false *
> 
>   if (condition) * false *
>     schedule();
> 
> In this case, a wakeup is missed, which could cause the rcu_gp_kthread
> waits for a long time.
> 
> The reason of this is that we do a lockless swait_active() check in
> swake_up(). To fix this, we can either 1) add a smp_mb() in swake_up()
> before swait_active() to provide the proper order or 2) simply remove
> the swait_active() in swake_up().
> 
> The solution 2 not only fixes this problem but also keeps the swait and
> wait API as close as possible, as wake_up() doesn't provide a full
> barrier and doesn't do a lockless check of the wait queue either.
> Moreover, there are users already using swait_active() to do their quick
> checks for the wait queues, so it make less sense that swake_up() and
> swake_up_all() do this on their own.
> 
> This patch then removes the lockless swait_active() check in swake_up()
> and swake_up_all().
> 
> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hearing no objections but not hearing anything else, either, I have
queued this for v4.14.  If someone else would rather queue it, please
let me know.

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  kernel/sched/swait.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/swait.c b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> index 3d5610dcce11..2227e183e202 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/swait.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ void swake_up(struct swait_queue_head *q)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
> 
> -	if (!swait_active(q))
> -		return;
> -
>  	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
>  	swake_up_locked(q);
>  	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> @@ -51,9 +48,6 @@ void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q)
>  	struct swait_queue *curr;
>  	LIST_HEAD(tmp);
> 
> -	if (!swait_active(q))
> -		return;
> -
>  	raw_spin_lock_irq(&q->lock);
>  	list_splice_init(&q->task_list, &tmp);
>  	while (!list_empty(&tmp)) {
> -- 
> 2.13.3
>