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<title>locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
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<published>2026-06-17T01:47:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 40a25d59e85b3c8709ac2424d44f65610467871e ]

syzbot triggered the following splat in remove_waiter() via
FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f]
   class_raw_spinlock_constructor
   remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561
   rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120
   futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0
   __x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0

task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() does not arm the waiter upon deadlock detection,
leaving waiter-&gt;task nil, where 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead
of current in remove_waiter()") made this fatal.

Furthermore, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() should not be calling into remove_waiter()
upon a successfully grabbing the rtmutex. 1a1fb985f2e2 ("futex: Handle early deadlock
return correctly"), moved the remove_waiter() out of __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
(where 'ret' was only ever 0 or &lt; 0) into the wrapper. Tighten this check to
account for try_to_take_rt_mutex().

Fixes: 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()")
Reported-by: syzbot+78147abe6c524f183ee9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69f114ac.050a0220.ac8b.0003.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507112913.1019537-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 40a25d59e85b3c8709ac2424d44f65610467871e ]

syzbot triggered the following splat in remove_waiter() via
FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f]
   class_raw_spinlock_constructor
   remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561
   rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120
   futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0
   __x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0

task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() does not arm the waiter upon deadlock detection,
leaving waiter-&gt;task nil, where 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead
of current in remove_waiter()") made this fatal.

Furthermore, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() should not be calling into remove_waiter()
upon a successfully grabbing the rtmutex. 1a1fb985f2e2 ("futex: Handle early deadlock
return correctly"), moved the remove_waiter() out of __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
(where 'ret' was only ever 0 or &lt; 0) into the wrapper. Tighten this check to
account for try_to_take_rt_mutex().

Fixes: 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()")
Reported-by: syzbot+78147abe6c524f183ee9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69f114ac.050a0220.ac8b.0003.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507112913.1019537-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()</title>
<updated>2026-05-17T15:13:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keenan Dong</name>
<email>keenanat2000@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-08T08:46:00+00:00</published>
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commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
     task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
  	changelog ]

Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
     task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
  	changelog ]

Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtmutex: Drop rt_mutex::wait_lock before scheduling</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T09:11:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roland Xu</name>
<email>mu001999@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-15T02:58:13+00:00</published>
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commit d33d26036a0274b472299d7dcdaa5fb34329f91b upstream.

rt_mutex_handle_deadlock() is called with rt_mutex::wait_lock held.  In the
good case it returns with the lock held and in the deadlock case it emits a
warning and goes into an endless scheduling loop with the lock held, which
triggers the 'scheduling in atomic' warning.

Unlock rt_mutex::wait_lock in the dead lock case before issuing the warning
and dropping into the schedule for ever loop.

[ tglx: Moved unlock before the WARN(), removed the pointless comment,
  	massaged changelog, added Fixes tag ]

Fixes: 3d5c9340d194 ("rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter")
Signed-off-by: Roland Xu &lt;mu001999@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ME0P300MB063599BEF0743B8FA339C2CECC802@ME0P300MB0635.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d33d26036a0274b472299d7dcdaa5fb34329f91b upstream.

rt_mutex_handle_deadlock() is called with rt_mutex::wait_lock held.  In the
good case it returns with the lock held and in the deadlock case it emits a
warning and goes into an endless scheduling loop with the lock held, which
triggers the 'scheduling in atomic' warning.

Unlock rt_mutex::wait_lock in the dead lock case before issuing the warning
and dropping into the schedule for ever loop.

[ tglx: Moved unlock before the WARN(), removed the pointless comment,
  	massaged changelog, added Fixes tag ]

Fixes: 3d5c9340d194 ("rtmutex: Handle deadlock detection smarter")
Signed-off-by: Roland Xu &lt;mu001999@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ME0P300MB063599BEF0743B8FA339C2CECC802@ME0P300MB0635.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locking/rtmutex: Fix task-&gt;pi_waiters integrity</title>
<updated>2023-07-17T11:59:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-07T14:19:09+00:00</published>
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Henry reported that rt_mutex_adjust_prio_check() has an ordering
problem and puts the lie to the comment in [7]. Sharing the sort key
between lock-&gt;waiters and owner-&gt;pi_waiters *does* create problems,
since unlike what the comment claims, holding [L] is insufficient.

Notably, consider:

	A
      /   \
     M1   M2
     |     |
     B     C

That is, task A owns both M1 and M2, B and C block on them. In this
case a concurrent chain walk (B &amp; C) will modify their resp. sort keys
in [7] while holding M1-&gt;wait_lock and M2-&gt;wait_lock. So holding [L]
is meaningless, they're different Ls.

This then gives rise to a race condition between [7] and [11], where
the requeue of pi_waiters will observe an inconsistent tree order.

	B				C

  (holds M1-&gt;wait_lock,		(holds M2-&gt;wait_lock,
   holds B-&gt;pi_lock)		 holds A-&gt;pi_lock)

  [7]
  waiter_update_prio();
  ...
  [8]
  raw_spin_unlock(B-&gt;pi_lock);
  ...
  [10]
  raw_spin_lock(A-&gt;pi_lock);

				[11]
				rt_mutex_enqueue_pi();
				// observes inconsistent A-&gt;pi_waiters
				// tree order

Fixing this means either extending the range of the owner lock from
[10-13] to [6-13], with the immediate problem that this means [6-8]
hold both blocked and owner locks, or duplicating the sort key.

Since the locking in chain walk is horrible enough without having to
consider pi_lock nesting rules, duplicate the sort key instead.

By giving each tree their own sort key, the above race becomes
harmless, if C sees B at the old location, then B will correct things
(if they need correcting) when it walks up the chain and reaches A.

Fixes: fb00aca47440 ("rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree")
Reported-by: Henry Wu &lt;triangletrap12@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Henry Wu &lt;triangletrap12@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707161052.GF2883469%40hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Henry reported that rt_mutex_adjust_prio_check() has an ordering
problem and puts the lie to the comment in [7]. Sharing the sort key
between lock-&gt;waiters and owner-&gt;pi_waiters *does* create problems,
since unlike what the comment claims, holding [L] is insufficient.

Notably, consider:

	A
      /   \
     M1   M2
     |     |
     B     C

That is, task A owns both M1 and M2, B and C block on them. In this
case a concurrent chain walk (B &amp; C) will modify their resp. sort keys
in [7] while holding M1-&gt;wait_lock and M2-&gt;wait_lock. So holding [L]
is meaningless, they're different Ls.

This then gives rise to a race condition between [7] and [11], where
the requeue of pi_waiters will observe an inconsistent tree order.

	B				C

  (holds M1-&gt;wait_lock,		(holds M2-&gt;wait_lock,
   holds B-&gt;pi_lock)		 holds A-&gt;pi_lock)

  [7]
  waiter_update_prio();
  ...
  [8]
  raw_spin_unlock(B-&gt;pi_lock);
  ...
  [10]
  raw_spin_lock(A-&gt;pi_lock);

				[11]
				rt_mutex_enqueue_pi();
				// observes inconsistent A-&gt;pi_waiters
				// tree order

Fixing this means either extending the range of the owner lock from
[10-13] to [6-13], with the immediate problem that this means [6-8]
hold both blocked and owner locks, or duplicating the sort key.

Since the locking in chain walk is horrible enough without having to
consider pi_lock nesting rules, duplicate the sort key instead.

By giving each tree their own sort key, the above race becomes
harmless, if C sees B at the old location, then B will correct things
(if they need correcting) when it walks up the chain and reaches A.

Fixes: fb00aca47440 ("rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree")
Reported-by: Henry Wu &lt;triangletrap12@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Henry Wu &lt;triangletrap12@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707161052.GF2883469%40hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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<entry>
<title>rtmutex: Ensure that the top waiter is always woken up</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T13:49:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wander Lairson Costa</name>
<email>wander@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-02T12:30:20+00:00</published>
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Let L1 and L2 be two spinlocks.

Let T1 be a task holding L1 and blocked on L2. T1, currently, is the top
waiter of L2.

Let T2 be the task holding L2.

Let T3 be a task trying to acquire L1.

The following events will lead to a state in which the wait queue of L2
isn't empty, but no task actually holds the lock.

T1                T2                                  T3
==                ==                                  ==

                                                      spin_lock(L1)
                                                      | raw_spin_lock(L1-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | rtlock_slowlock_locked(L1)
                                                      | | task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(L1, T3)
                                                      | | | orig_waiter-&gt;lock = L1
                                                      | | | orig_waiter-&gt;task = T3
                                                      | | | raw_spin_unlock(L1-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | | | rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(T1, L1, L2, orig_waiter, T3)
                  spin_unlock(L2)                     | | | |
                  | rt_mutex_slowunlock(L2)           | | | |
                  | | raw_spin_lock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)    | | | |
                  | | wakeup(T1)                      | | | |
                  | | raw_spin_unlock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)  | | | |
                                                      | | | | waiter = T1-&gt;pi_blocked_on
                                                      | | | | waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(L2)
                                                      | | | | waiter-&gt;task == T1
                                                      | | | | raw_spin_lock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | | | | dequeue(L2, waiter)
                                                      | | | | update_prio(waiter, T1)
                                                      | | | | enqueue(L2, waiter)
                                                      | | | | waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(L2)
                                                      | | | | L2-&gt;owner == NULL
                                                      | | | | wakeup(T1)
                                                      | | | | raw_spin_unlock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)
T1 wakes up
T1 != top_waiter(L2)
schedule_rtlock()

If the deadline of T1 is updated before the call to update_prio(), and the
new deadline is greater than the deadline of the second top waiter, then
after the requeue, T1 is no longer the top waiter, and the wrong task is
woken up which will then go back to sleep because it is not the top waiter.

This can be reproduced in PREEMPT_RT with stress-ng:

while true; do
    stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
    	    --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
    	    1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
done

A similar issue was pointed out by Thomas versus the cases where the top
waiter drops out early due to a signal or timeout, which is a general issue
for all regular rtmutex use cases, e.g. futex.

The problematic code is in rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain():

    	// Save the top waiter before dequeue/enqueue
	prerequeue_top_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);

	rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
	waiter_update_prio(waiter, task);
	rt_mutex_enqueue(lock, waiter);

	// Lock has no owner?
	if (!rt_mutex_owner(lock)) {
	   	// Top waiter changed		      			   
  ----&gt;		if (prerequeue_top_waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
  ----&gt;			wake_up_state(waiter-&gt;task, waiter-&gt;wake_state);

This only takes the case into account where @waiter is the new top waiter
due to the requeue operation.

But it fails to handle the case where @waiter is not longer the top
waiter due to the requeue operation.

Ensure that the new top waiter is woken up so in all cases so it can take
over the ownerless lock.

[ tglx: Amend changelog, add Fixes tag ]

Fixes: c014ef69b3ac ("locking/rtmutex: Add wake_state to rt_mutex_waiter")
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230117172649.52465-1-wander@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202123020.14844-1-wander@redhat.com
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Let L1 and L2 be two spinlocks.

Let T1 be a task holding L1 and blocked on L2. T1, currently, is the top
waiter of L2.

Let T2 be the task holding L2.

Let T3 be a task trying to acquire L1.

The following events will lead to a state in which the wait queue of L2
isn't empty, but no task actually holds the lock.

T1                T2                                  T3
==                ==                                  ==

                                                      spin_lock(L1)
                                                      | raw_spin_lock(L1-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | rtlock_slowlock_locked(L1)
                                                      | | task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(L1, T3)
                                                      | | | orig_waiter-&gt;lock = L1
                                                      | | | orig_waiter-&gt;task = T3
                                                      | | | raw_spin_unlock(L1-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | | | rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(T1, L1, L2, orig_waiter, T3)
                  spin_unlock(L2)                     | | | |
                  | rt_mutex_slowunlock(L2)           | | | |
                  | | raw_spin_lock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)    | | | |
                  | | wakeup(T1)                      | | | |
                  | | raw_spin_unlock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)  | | | |
                                                      | | | | waiter = T1-&gt;pi_blocked_on
                                                      | | | | waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(L2)
                                                      | | | | waiter-&gt;task == T1
                                                      | | | | raw_spin_lock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)
                                                      | | | | dequeue(L2, waiter)
                                                      | | | | update_prio(waiter, T1)
                                                      | | | | enqueue(L2, waiter)
                                                      | | | | waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(L2)
                                                      | | | | L2-&gt;owner == NULL
                                                      | | | | wakeup(T1)
                                                      | | | | raw_spin_unlock(L2-&gt;wait_lock)
T1 wakes up
T1 != top_waiter(L2)
schedule_rtlock()

If the deadline of T1 is updated before the call to update_prio(), and the
new deadline is greater than the deadline of the second top waiter, then
after the requeue, T1 is no longer the top waiter, and the wrong task is
woken up which will then go back to sleep because it is not the top waiter.

This can be reproduced in PREEMPT_RT with stress-ng:

while true; do
    stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
    	    --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
    	    1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
done

A similar issue was pointed out by Thomas versus the cases where the top
waiter drops out early due to a signal or timeout, which is a general issue
for all regular rtmutex use cases, e.g. futex.

The problematic code is in rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain():

    	// Save the top waiter before dequeue/enqueue
	prerequeue_top_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);

	rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
	waiter_update_prio(waiter, task);
	rt_mutex_enqueue(lock, waiter);

	// Lock has no owner?
	if (!rt_mutex_owner(lock)) {
	   	// Top waiter changed		      			   
  ----&gt;		if (prerequeue_top_waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
  ----&gt;			wake_up_state(waiter-&gt;task, waiter-&gt;wake_state);

This only takes the case into account where @waiter is the new top waiter
due to the requeue operation.

But it fails to handle the case where @waiter is not longer the top
waiter due to the requeue operation.

Ensure that the new top waiter is woken up so in all cases so it can take
over the ownerless lock.

[ tglx: Amend changelog, add Fixes tag ]

Fixes: c014ef69b3ac ("locking/rtmutex: Add wake_state to rt_mutex_waiter")
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230117172649.52465-1-wander@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202123020.14844-1-wander@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtmutex: Add acquire semantics for rtmutex lock acquisition slow path</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T18:55:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-02T10:02:23+00:00</published>
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Jan Kara reported the following bug triggering on 6.0.5-rt14 running dbench
on XFS on arm64.

 kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:625!
 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP
 CPU: 11 PID: 6611 Comm: dbench Tainted: G            E   6.0.0-rt14-rt+ #1
 pc : clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
 lr : clear_inode+0x38/0xc0
 Call trace:
  clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
  evict+0x160/0x180
  iput+0x154/0x240
  do_unlinkat+0x184/0x300
  __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x48/0xc0
  el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0xe4/0x2c0
  do_el0_svc+0xac/0x100
  el0_svc+0x78/0x200
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x9c/0xc0
  el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0

It also affects 6.1-rc7-rt5 and affects a preempt-rt fork of 5.14 so this
is likely a bug that existed forever and only became visible when ARM
support was added to preempt-rt. The same problem does not occur on x86-64
and he also reported that converting sb-&gt;s_inode_wblist_lock to
raw_spinlock_t makes the problem disappear indicating that the RT spinlock
variant is the problem.

Which in turn means that RT mutexes on ARM64 and any other weakly ordered
architecture are affected by this independent of RT.

Will Deacon observed:

  "I'd be more inclined to be suspicious of the slowpath tbh, as we need to
   make sure that we have acquire semantics on all paths where the lock can
   be taken. Looking at the rtmutex code, this really isn't obvious to me
   -- for example, try_to_take_rt_mutex() appears to be able to return via
   the 'takeit' label without acquire semantics and it looks like we might
   be relying on the caller's subsequent _unlock_ of the wait_lock for
   ordering, but that will give us release semantics which aren't correct."

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior prototyped a fix that does work based on that
comment but it was a little bit overkill and added some fences that should
not be necessary.

The lock owner is updated with an IRQ-safe raw spinlock held, but the
spin_unlock does not provide acquire semantics which are needed when
acquiring a mutex.

Adds the necessary acquire semantics for lock owner updates in the slow path
acquisition and the waiter bit logic.

It successfully completed 10 iterations of the dbench workload while the
vanilla kernel fails on the first iteration.

[ bigeasy@linutronix.de: Initial prototype fix ]

Fixes: 700318d1d7b38 ("locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics")
Fixes: 23f78d4a03c5 ("[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core")
Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202100223.6mevpbl7i6x5udfd@techsingularity.net
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<pre>
Jan Kara reported the following bug triggering on 6.0.5-rt14 running dbench
on XFS on arm64.

 kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:625!
 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP
 CPU: 11 PID: 6611 Comm: dbench Tainted: G            E   6.0.0-rt14-rt+ #1
 pc : clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
 lr : clear_inode+0x38/0xc0
 Call trace:
  clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
  evict+0x160/0x180
  iput+0x154/0x240
  do_unlinkat+0x184/0x300
  __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x48/0xc0
  el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0xe4/0x2c0
  do_el0_svc+0xac/0x100
  el0_svc+0x78/0x200
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x9c/0xc0
  el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0

It also affects 6.1-rc7-rt5 and affects a preempt-rt fork of 5.14 so this
is likely a bug that existed forever and only became visible when ARM
support was added to preempt-rt. The same problem does not occur on x86-64
and he also reported that converting sb-&gt;s_inode_wblist_lock to
raw_spinlock_t makes the problem disappear indicating that the RT spinlock
variant is the problem.

Which in turn means that RT mutexes on ARM64 and any other weakly ordered
architecture are affected by this independent of RT.

Will Deacon observed:

  "I'd be more inclined to be suspicious of the slowpath tbh, as we need to
   make sure that we have acquire semantics on all paths where the lock can
   be taken. Looking at the rtmutex code, this really isn't obvious to me
   -- for example, try_to_take_rt_mutex() appears to be able to return via
   the 'takeit' label without acquire semantics and it looks like we might
   be relying on the caller's subsequent _unlock_ of the wait_lock for
   ordering, but that will give us release semantics which aren't correct."

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior prototyped a fix that does work based on that
comment but it was a little bit overkill and added some fences that should
not be necessary.

The lock owner is updated with an IRQ-safe raw spinlock held, but the
spin_unlock does not provide acquire semantics which are needed when
acquiring a mutex.

Adds the necessary acquire semantics for lock owner updates in the slow path
acquisition and the waiter bit logic.

It successfully completed 10 iterations of the dbench workload while the
vanilla kernel fails on the first iteration.

[ bigeasy@linutronix.de: Initial prototype fix ]

Fixes: 700318d1d7b38 ("locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics")
Fixes: 23f78d4a03c5 ("[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core")
Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202100223.6mevpbl7i6x5udfd@techsingularity.net
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Apply contention tracepoints in the slow path</title>
<updated>2022-04-05T08:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T18:57:09+00:00</published>
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Adding the lock contention tracepoints in various lock function slow
paths.  Note that each arch can define spinlock differently, I only
added it only to the generic qspinlock for now.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322185709.141236-3-namhyung@kernel.org
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Adding the lock contention tracepoints in various lock function slow
paths.  Note that each arch can define spinlock differently, I only
added it only to the generic qspinlock for now.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322185709.141236-3-namhyung@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking/urgent' into locking/core</title>
<updated>2021-12-18T09:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-18T09:57:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f16cc980d649e664b8f41e1bbaba50255d24e5d1'/>
<id>f16cc980d649e664b8f41e1bbaba50255d24e5d1</id>
<content type='text'>
Pick up the spin loop condition fix.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Pick up the spin loop condition fix.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/rtmutex: Fix incorrect condition in rtmutex_spin_on_owner()</title>
<updated>2021-12-18T09:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang1.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-17T07:42:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Optimistic spinning needs to be terminated when the spinning waiter is not
longer the top waiter on the lock, but the condition is negated. It
terminates if the waiter is the top waiter, which is defeating the whole
purpose.

Fixes: c3123c431447 ("locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211217074207.77425-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com
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<pre>
Optimistic spinning needs to be terminated when the spinning waiter is not
longer the top waiter on the lock, but the condition is negated. It
terminates if the waiter is the top waiter, which is defeating the whole
purpose.

Fixes: c3123c431447 ("locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211217074207.77425-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Make owner_on_cpu() into &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2021-12-04T09:56:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-03T07:59:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move the owner_on_cpu() from kernel/locking/rwsem.c into
include/linux/sched.h with under CONFIG_SMP, then use it
in the mutex/rwsem/rtmutex to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203075935.136808-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
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Move the owner_on_cpu() from kernel/locking/rwsem.c into
include/linux/sched.h with under CONFIG_SMP, then use it
in the mutex/rwsem/rtmutex to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203075935.136808-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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