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authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>2021-06-03 01:15:59 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>2021-07-15 01:20:10 +0200
commit1a3402d93c73bf6bb4df6d7c2aac35abfc3c50e2 (patch)
treeff4ae75a802a4ef3b30d296afcc14597e0225b8a /kernel/time
parente73f0f0ee7541171d89f2e2491130c7771ba58d3 (diff)
downloadlinux-1a3402d93c73bf6bb4df6d7c2aac35abfc3c50e2.tar.gz
posix-cpu-timers: Fix rearm racing against process tick
Since the process wide cputime counter is started locklessly from
posix_cpu_timer_rearm(), it can be concurrently stopped by operations
on other timers from the same thread group, such as in the following
unlucky scenario:

         CPU 0                                CPU 1
         -----                                -----
                                           timer_settime(TIMER B)
   posix_cpu_timer_rearm(TIMER A)
       cpu_clock_sample_group()
           (pct->timers_active already true)

                                           handle_posix_cpu_timers()
                                               check_process_timers()
                                                   stop_process_timers()
                                                       pct->timers_active = false
       arm_timer(TIMER A)

   tick -> run_posix_cpu_timers()
       // sees !pct->timers_active, ignore
       // our TIMER A

Fix this with simply locking process wide cputime counting start and
timer arm in the same block.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Fixes: 60f2ceaa8111 ("posix-cpu-timers: Remove unnecessary locking around cpu_clock_sample_group")
Cc: stable@vger.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 29a5e54e6e10..517be7fd175e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -991,6 +991,11 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer)
 	if (!p)
 		goto out;
 
+	/* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */
+	sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
+	if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
+		goto out;
+
 	/*
 	 * Fetch the current sample and update the timer's expiry time.
 	 */
@@ -1001,11 +1006,6 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer)
 
 	bump_cpu_timer(timer, now);
 
-	/* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */
-	sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
-	if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
-		goto out;
-
 	/*
 	 * Now re-arm for the new expiry time.
 	 */