[PATCH 2/7] posix-cpu-timers: Assert task sighand is locked while starting cputime counter

Frederic Weisbecker
2021-06-22T23:42:10Z

Starting the process wide cputime counter needs to be done in the same
sighand locking sequence than actually arming the related timer
otherwise we risk races against concurrent timers setting/expiring
in the same threadgroup.

Detecting that we start the cputime counter without holding the sighand
lock is a first step toward debugging such situations.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/signal.c | 13 +++++++++++++
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 7f4278fa21fe..65914e9be683 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -709,6 +709,12 @@ static inline void unlock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *task,
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->sighand->siglock, *flags);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+extern void lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(struct task_struct *task);
+#else
+static inline void lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(struct task_struct *task) { }
+#endif
+
static inline unsigned long task_rlimit(const struct task_struct *task,
unsigned int limit)
{
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index f7c6ffcbd044..82cbb8ecff5a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1440,6 +1440,19 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
return sighand;
}

+void lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct sighand_struct *sighand;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ sighand = rcu_dereference(task->sighand);
+ if (sighand)
+ lockdep_assert_held(&sighand->siglock);
+ else
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
/*
* send signal info to all the members of a group
*/
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index aa52fc85dbcb..f78ccab58aa4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ static void thread_group_start_cputime(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 *samples)
struct thread_group_cputimer *cputimer = &tsk->signal->cputimer;
struct posix_cputimers *pct = &tsk->signal->posix_cputimers;

+ lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(tsk);
+
/* Check if cputimer isn't running. This is accessed without locking. */
if (!READ_ONCE(pct->timers_active)) {
struct task_cputime sum;
--
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