Re: WARNING in timer_wait_running

[Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 11:07:24PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> Up-to-date warning:
> 
>  | WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6695 at kernel/time/posix-timers.c:849 timer_wait_running+0x255/0x290 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:849
>  | Modules linked in:
>  | CPU: 1 PID: 6695 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc3-syzkaller-00338-gda8e7da11e4b #0
>  | Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/02/2023
>  | RIP: 0010:timer_wait_running+0x255/0x290 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:849
>  | Code: 00 48 c7 c2 80 fe 4e 8a be 06 03 00 00 48 c7 c7 e0 fe 4e 8a c6 05 63 cb ed 0c 01 e8 85 77 ef ff e9 5b fe ff ff e8 2b 7d 0e 00 <0f> 0b e9 b2 fe ff ff e8 0f 8a 5f 00 e9 fe fd ff ff e8 25 8a 5f 00
>  | RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ecfd50 EFLAGS: 00010293
>  | RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>  | RDX: ffff888020e4ba80 RSI: ffffffff81746785 RDI: ffffffff8a4f0ad8
>  | RBP: ffff88807c696d38 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
>  | R10: fffffbfff1cef98a R11: 0000000000000021 R12: ffffc90003ecfdb0
>  | R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8a4f0a60 R15: ffffc90003ecfdb0
>  | FS:  00007fae387fe700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  | CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  | CR2: 00007f0d105821b8 CR3: 000000002a283000 CR4: 00000000003526e0
>  | DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  | DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  | Call Trace:
>  |  <TASK>
>  |  do_timer_settime.part.0+0x119/0x1d0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:929
>  |  do_timer_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:938 [inline]
>  |  __do_sys_timer_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:952 [inline]
>  |  __se_sys_timer_settime kernel/time/posix-timers.c:938 [inline]
>  |  __x64_sys_timer_settime+0x21d/0x310 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:938
>  |  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
>  |  do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
>  |  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>  | RIP: 0033:0x7fae3948c0f9
>  | Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 19 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
>  | RSP: 002b:00007fae387fe168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000df
>  | RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fae395ac050 RCX: 00007fae3948c0f9
>  | RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
>  | RBP: 00007fae394e7b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
>  | R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
>  | R13: 00007fae396cfb1f R14: 00007fae387fe300 R15: 0000000000022000
>  |  </TASK>
> 
> I've seen this warning in the wild recently, and it's been around since
> 2020 according to syzbot.
> 
> The warning was added in ec8f954a40da8 ("posix-timers: Use a callback
> for cancel synchronization on PREEMPT_RT").
> 
> Why is it wrong for timer_wait_running to be NULL?

It appears to concern clock_posix_cpu which indeed doesn't implement
->timer_wait_running even though posix_cpu_timer_set() might return
TIMER_RETRY if the timer is about to fire.

Then on RT and if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y then
timer_wait_running() must busy loop waiting for the task to complete
the task work.

We could arrange for doing the same thing as hrtimer_cancel_wait_running()
but for posix cpu timers, with taking a similar lock within
handle_posix_cpu_timers() that timer_wait_running() could sleep on and
inject its PI into.

Thomas, Anna-Maria, would that make sense?

Thanks.