[tip:core/urgent] watchdog/harclockup/perf: Revert a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")

tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-01T19:49:21Z

Commit-ID: 1c294733b7b9f712f78d15cfa75ffdea72b79abb
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1c294733b7b9f712f78d15cfa75ffdea72b79abb
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:32:00 +0100
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:41:27 +0100

watchdog/harclockup/perf: Revert a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")

Guenter reported a crash in the watchdog/perf code, which is caused by
cleanup() and enable() running concurrently. The reason for this is:

The watchdog functions are serialized via the watchdog_mutex and cpu
hotplug locking, but the enable of the perf based watchdog happens in
context of the unpark callback of the smpboot thread. But that unpark
function is not synchronous inside the locking. The unparking of the thread
just wakes it up and leaves so there is no guarantee when the thread is
executing.

If it starts running _before_ the cleanup happened then it will create a
event and overwrite the dead event pointer. The new event is then cleaned
up because the event is marked dead.

lock(watchdog_mutex);
lockup_detector_reconfigure();
cpus_read_lock();
stop();
park()
update();
start();
unpark()
cpus_read_unlock(); thread runs()
overwrite dead event ptr
cleanup();
free new event, which is active inside perf....
unlock(watchdog_mutex);

The park side is safe as that actually waits for the thread to reach
parked state.

Commit a33d44843d45 removed the protection against this kind of scenario
under the stupid assumption that the hotplug serialization and the
watchdog_mutex cover everything.

Bring it back.

Reverts: a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")
Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Feels-stupid Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710312145190.1942@nanos

---
kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
index 71a62ce..f8db56b 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, hard_watchdog_warn);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, watchdog_nmi_touch);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, dead_event);
static struct cpumask dead_events_mask;

static unsigned long hardlockup_allcpu_dumped;
@@ -203,6 +204,8 @@ void hardlockup_detector_perf_disable(void)

if (event) {
perf_event_disable(event);
+ this_cpu_write(watchdog_ev, NULL);
+ this_cpu_write(dead_event, event);
cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &dead_events_mask);
watchdog_cpus--;
}
@@ -218,7 +221,7 @@ void hardlockup_detector_perf_cleanup(void)
int cpu;

for_each_cpu(cpu, &dead_events_mask) {
- struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);
+ struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(dead_event, cpu);

/*
* Required because for_each_cpu() reports unconditionally
@@ -226,7 +229,7 @@ void hardlockup_detector_perf_cleanup(void)
*/
if (event)
perf_event_release_kernel(event);
- per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu) = NULL;
+ per_cpu(dead_event_ev, cpu) = NULL;
}
cpumask_clear(&dead_events_mask);
}