[PATCH 4.9 050/128] perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-19T14:41:45Z

From: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>

commit 2ed6edd33a214bca02bd2b45e3fc3038a059436b upstream.

Under rare circumstances, task_function_call() can repeatedly fail and
cause a soft lockup.

There is a slight race where the process is no longer running on the cpu
we targeted by the time remote_function() runs. The code will simply
try again. If we are very unlucky, this will continue to fail, until a
watchdog fires. This can happen in a heavily loaded, multi-core virtual
machine.

Reported-by: syzbot+bb4935a5c09b5ff79940@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414222920.121401-1-brho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/events/core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
* @info: the function call argument
*
* Calls the function @func when the task is currently running. This might
- * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly
+ * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly. This will
+ * retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
+ * task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
*
- * returns: @func return value, or
- * -ESRCH - when the process isn't running
- * -EAGAIN - when the process moved away
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
*/
static int
task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -107,11 +107,16 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p
};
int ret;

- do {
- ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function, &data, 1);
- if (!ret)
- ret = data.ret;
- } while (ret == -EAGAIN);
+ for (;;) {
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
+ &data, 1);
+ ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+
+ if (ret != -EAGAIN)
+ break;
+
+ cond_resched();
+ }

return ret;
}