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<title>sched/uclamp: Fix rq-&gt;uclamp_max not set on first enqueue</title>
<updated>2021-12-04T09:56:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qais.yousef@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-02T11:20:33+00:00</published>
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Commit d81ae8aac85c ("sched/uclamp: Fix initialization of struct
uclamp_rq") introduced a bug where uclamp_max of the rq is not reset to
match the woken up task's uclamp_max when the rq is idle.

The code was relying on rq-&gt;uclamp_max initialized to zero, so on first
enqueue

	static inline void uclamp_rq_inc_id(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
					    enum uclamp_id clamp_id)
	{
		...

		if (uc_se-&gt;value &gt; READ_ONCE(uc_rq-&gt;value))
			WRITE_ONCE(uc_rq-&gt;value, uc_se-&gt;value);
	}

was actually resetting it. But since commit d81ae8aac85c changed the
default to 1024, this no longer works. And since rq-&gt;uclamp_flags is
also initialized to 0, neither above code path nor uclamp_idle_reset()
update the rq-&gt;uclamp_max on first wake up from idle.

This is only visible from first wake up(s) until the first dequeue to
idle after enabling the static key. And it only matters if the
uclamp_max of this task is &lt; 1024 since only then its uclamp_max will be
effectively ignored.

Fix it by properly initializing rq-&gt;uclamp_flags = UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE to
ensure uclamp_idle_reset() is called which then will update the rq
uclamp_max value as expected.

Fixes: d81ae8aac85c ("sched/uclamp: Fix initialization of struct uclamp_rq")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202112033.1705279-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
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Commit d81ae8aac85c ("sched/uclamp: Fix initialization of struct
uclamp_rq") introduced a bug where uclamp_max of the rq is not reset to
match the woken up task's uclamp_max when the rq is idle.

The code was relying on rq-&gt;uclamp_max initialized to zero, so on first
enqueue

	static inline void uclamp_rq_inc_id(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
					    enum uclamp_id clamp_id)
	{
		...

		if (uc_se-&gt;value &gt; READ_ONCE(uc_rq-&gt;value))
			WRITE_ONCE(uc_rq-&gt;value, uc_se-&gt;value);
	}

was actually resetting it. But since commit d81ae8aac85c changed the
default to 1024, this no longer works. And since rq-&gt;uclamp_flags is
also initialized to 0, neither above code path nor uclamp_idle_reset()
update the rq-&gt;uclamp_max on first wake up from idle.

This is only visible from first wake up(s) until the first dequeue to
idle after enabling the static key. And it only matters if the
uclamp_max of this task is &lt; 1024 since only then its uclamp_max will be
effectively ignored.

Fix it by properly initializing rq-&gt;uclamp_flags = UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE to
ensure uclamp_idle_reset() is called which then will update the rq
uclamp_max value as expected.

Fixes: d81ae8aac85c ("sched/uclamp: Fix initialization of struct uclamp_rq")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202112033.1705279-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>preempt/dynamic: Fix setup_preempt_mode() return value</title>
<updated>2021-12-04T09:56:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Halaney</name>
<email>ahalaney@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-03T23:32:03+00:00</published>
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__setup() callbacks expect 1 for success and 0 for failure. Correct the
usage here to reflect that.

Fixes: 826bfeb37bb4 ("preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney &lt;ahalaney@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211203233203.133581-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
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__setup() callbacks expect 1 for success and 0 for failure. Correct the
usage here to reflect that.

Fixes: 826bfeb37bb4 ("preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney &lt;ahalaney@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211203233203.133581-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>sched/scs: Reset task stack state in bringup_cpu()</title>
<updated>2021-11-24T11:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-23T11:40:47+00:00</published>
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To hot unplug a CPU, the idle task on that CPU calls a few layers of C
code before finally leaving the kernel. When KASAN is in use, poisoned
shadow is left around for each of the active stack frames, and when
shadow call stacks are in use. When shadow call stacks (SCS) are in use
the task's saved SCS SP is left pointing at an arbitrary point within
the task's shadow call stack.

When a CPU is offlined than onlined back into the kernel, this stale
state can adversely affect execution. Stale KASAN shadow can alias new
stackframes and result in bogus KASAN warnings. A stale SCS SP is
effectively a memory leak, and prevents a portion of the shadow call
stack being used. Across a number of hotplug cycles the idle task's
entire shadow call stack can become unusable.

We previously fixed the KASAN issue in commit:

  e1b77c92981a5222 ("sched/kasan: remove stale KASAN poison after hotplug")

... by removing any stale KASAN stack poison immediately prior to
onlining a CPU.

Subsequently in commit:

  f1a0a376ca0c4ef1 ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")

... the refactoring left the KASAN and SCS cleanup in one-time idle
thread initialization code rather than something invoked prior to each
CPU being onlined, breaking both as above.

We fixed SCS (but not KASAN) in commit:

  63acd42c0d4942f7 ("sched/scs: Reset the shadow stack when idle_task_exit")

... but as this runs in the context of the idle task being offlined it's
potentially fragile.

To fix these consistently and more robustly, reset the SCS SP and KASAN
shadow of a CPU's idle task immediately before we online that CPU in
bringup_cpu(). This ensures the idle task always has a consistent state
when it is running, and removes the need to so so when exiting an idle
task.

Whenever any thread is created, dup_task_struct() will give the task a
stack which is free of KASAN shadow, and initialize the task's SCS SP,
so there's no need to specially initialize either for idle thread within
init_idle(), as this was only necessary to handle hotplug cycles.

I've tested this on arm64 with:

* gcc 11.1.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK
* clang 12.0.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK, SHADOW_CALL_STACK

... offlining and onlining CPUS with:

| while true; do
|   for C in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online; do
|     echo 0 &gt; $C;
|     echo 1 &gt; $C;
|   done
| done

Fixes: f1a0a376ca0c4ef1 ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")
Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;quic_qiancai@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Qian Cai &lt;quic_qiancai@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211115113310.35693-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/
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To hot unplug a CPU, the idle task on that CPU calls a few layers of C
code before finally leaving the kernel. When KASAN is in use, poisoned
shadow is left around for each of the active stack frames, and when
shadow call stacks are in use. When shadow call stacks (SCS) are in use
the task's saved SCS SP is left pointing at an arbitrary point within
the task's shadow call stack.

When a CPU is offlined than onlined back into the kernel, this stale
state can adversely affect execution. Stale KASAN shadow can alias new
stackframes and result in bogus KASAN warnings. A stale SCS SP is
effectively a memory leak, and prevents a portion of the shadow call
stack being used. Across a number of hotplug cycles the idle task's
entire shadow call stack can become unusable.

We previously fixed the KASAN issue in commit:

  e1b77c92981a5222 ("sched/kasan: remove stale KASAN poison after hotplug")

... by removing any stale KASAN stack poison immediately prior to
onlining a CPU.

Subsequently in commit:

  f1a0a376ca0c4ef1 ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")

... the refactoring left the KASAN and SCS cleanup in one-time idle
thread initialization code rather than something invoked prior to each
CPU being onlined, breaking both as above.

We fixed SCS (but not KASAN) in commit:

  63acd42c0d4942f7 ("sched/scs: Reset the shadow stack when idle_task_exit")

... but as this runs in the context of the idle task being offlined it's
potentially fragile.

To fix these consistently and more robustly, reset the SCS SP and KASAN
shadow of a CPU's idle task immediately before we online that CPU in
bringup_cpu(). This ensures the idle task always has a consistent state
when it is running, and removes the need to so so when exiting an idle
task.

Whenever any thread is created, dup_task_struct() will give the task a
stack which is free of KASAN shadow, and initialize the task's SCS SP,
so there's no need to specially initialize either for idle thread within
init_idle(), as this was only necessary to handle hotplug cycles.

I've tested this on arm64 with:

* gcc 11.1.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK
* clang 12.0.0, defconfig +KASAN_INLINE, KASAN_STACK, SHADOW_CALL_STACK

... offlining and onlining CPUS with:

| while true; do
|   for C in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online; do
|     echo 0 &gt; $C;
|     echo 1 &gt; $C;
|   done
| done

Fixes: f1a0a376ca0c4ef1 ("sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled")
Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;quic_qiancai@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Qian Cai &lt;quic_qiancai@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211115113310.35693-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/
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<entry>
<title>preempt: Restore preemption model selection configs</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T12:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T20:24:44+00:00</published>
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Commit c597bfddc9e9 ("sched: Provide Kconfig support for default dynamic
preempt mode") changed the selectable config names for the preemption
model. This means a config file must now select

  CONFIG_PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR=y

rather than

  CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

to get a preemptible kernel. This means all arch config files would need to
be updated - right now they'll all end up with the default
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR.

Rather than touch a good hundred of config files, restore usage of
CONFIG_PREEMPT{_NONE, _VOLUNTARY}. Make them configure:
o The build-time preemption model when !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
o The default boot-time preemption model when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Add siblings of those configs with the _BUILD suffix to unconditionally
designate the build-time preemption model (PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is built with
the "highest" preemption model it supports, aka PREEMPT). Downstream
configs should by now all be depending / selected by CONFIG_PREEMPTION
rather than CONFIG_PREEMPT, so only a few sites need patching up.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110202448.4054153-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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Commit c597bfddc9e9 ("sched: Provide Kconfig support for default dynamic
preempt mode") changed the selectable config names for the preemption
model. This means a config file must now select

  CONFIG_PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR=y

rather than

  CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

to get a preemptible kernel. This means all arch config files would need to
be updated - right now they'll all end up with the default
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR.

Rather than touch a good hundred of config files, restore usage of
CONFIG_PREEMPT{_NONE, _VOLUNTARY}. Make them configure:
o The build-time preemption model when !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
o The default boot-time preemption model when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Add siblings of those configs with the _BUILD suffix to unconditionally
designate the build-time preemption model (PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is built with
the "highest" preemption model it supports, aka PREEMPT). Downstream
configs should by now all be depending / selected by CONFIG_PREEMPTION
rather than CONFIG_PREEMPT, so only a few sites need patching up.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110202448.4054153-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Prevent dead task groups from regaining cfs_rq's</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T12:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@grsecurity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-03T19:06:13+00:00</published>
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Kevin is reporting crashes which point to a use-after-free of a cfs_rq
in update_blocked_averages(). Initial debugging revealed that we've
live cfs_rq's (on_list=1) in an about to be kfree()'d task group in
free_fair_sched_group(). However, it was unclear how that can happen.

His kernel config happened to lead to a layout of struct sched_entity
that put the 'my_q' member directly into the middle of the object
which makes it incidentally overlap with SLUB's freelist pointer.
That, in combination with SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED's freelist pointer
mangling, leads to a reliable access violation in form of a #GP which
made the UAF fail fast.

Michal seems to have run into the same issue[1]. He already correctly
diagnosed that commit a7b359fc6a37 ("sched/fair: Correctly insert
cfs_rq's to list on unthrottle") is causing the preconditions for the
UAF to happen by re-adding cfs_rq's also to task groups that have no
more running tasks, i.e. also to dead ones. His analysis, however,
misses the real root cause and it cannot be seen from the crash
backtrace only, as the real offender is tg_unthrottle_up() getting
called via sched_cfs_period_timer() via the timer interrupt at an
inconvenient time.

When unregister_fair_sched_group() unlinks all cfs_rq's from the dying
task group, it doesn't protect itself from getting interrupted. If the
timer interrupt triggers while we iterate over all CPUs or after
unregister_fair_sched_group() has finished but prior to unlinking the
task group, sched_cfs_period_timer() will execute and walk the list of
task groups, trying to unthrottle cfs_rq's, i.e. re-add them to the
dying task group. These will later -- in free_fair_sched_group() -- be
kfree()'ed while still being linked, leading to the fireworks Kevin
and Michal are seeing.

To fix this race, ensure the dying task group gets unlinked first.
However, simply switching the order of unregistering and unlinking the
task group isn't sufficient, as concurrent RCU walkers might still see
it, as can be seen below:

    CPU1:                                      CPU2:
      :                                        timer IRQ:
      :                                          do_sched_cfs_period_timer():
      :                                            :
      :                                            distribute_cfs_runtime():
      :                                              rcu_read_lock();
      :                                              :
      :                                              unthrottle_cfs_rq():
    sched_offline_group():                             :
      :                                                walk_tg_tree_from(…,tg_unthrottle_up,…):
      list_del_rcu(&amp;tg-&gt;list);                           :
 (1)  :                                                  list_for_each_entry_rcu(child, &amp;parent-&gt;children, siblings)
      :                                                    :
 (2)  list_del_rcu(&amp;tg-&gt;siblings);                         :
      :                                                    tg_unthrottle_up():
      unregister_fair_sched_group():                         struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = tg-&gt;cfs_rq[cpu_of(rq)];
        :                                                    :
        list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(tg-&gt;cfs_rq[cpu]);               :
        :                                                    :
        :                                                    if (!cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq) || cfs_rq-&gt;nr_running)
 (3)    :                                                        list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
      :                                                      :
      :                                                    :
      :                                                  :
      :                                                :
      :                                              :
 (4)  :                                              rcu_read_unlock();

CPU 2 walks the task group list in parallel to sched_offline_group(),
specifically, it'll read the soon to be unlinked task group entry at
(1). Unlinking it on CPU 1 at (2) therefore won't prevent CPU 2 from
still passing it on to tg_unthrottle_up(). CPU 1 now tries to unlink
all cfs_rq's via list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() in
unregister_fair_sched_group().  Meanwhile CPU 2 will re-add some of
these at (3), which is the cause of the UAF later on.

To prevent this additional race from happening, we need to wait until
walk_tg_tree_from() has finished traversing the task groups, i.e.
after the RCU read critical section ends in (4). Afterwards we're safe
to call unregister_fair_sched_group(), as each new walk won't see the
dying task group any more.

On top of that, we need to wait yet another RCU grace period after
unregister_fair_sched_group() to ensure print_cfs_stats(), which might
run concurrently, always sees valid objects, i.e. not already free'd
ones.

This patch survives Michal's reproducer[2] for 8h+ now, which used to
trigger within minutes before.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211011172236.11223-1-mkoutny@suse.com/
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211102160228.GA57072@blackbody.suse.cz/

Fixes: a7b359fc6a37 ("sched/fair: Correctly insert cfs_rq's to list on unthrottle")
[peterz: shuffle code around a bit]
Reported-by: Kevin Tanguy &lt;kevin.tanguy@corp.ovh.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Kevin is reporting crashes which point to a use-after-free of a cfs_rq
in update_blocked_averages(). Initial debugging revealed that we've
live cfs_rq's (on_list=1) in an about to be kfree()'d task group in
free_fair_sched_group(). However, it was unclear how that can happen.

His kernel config happened to lead to a layout of struct sched_entity
that put the 'my_q' member directly into the middle of the object
which makes it incidentally overlap with SLUB's freelist pointer.
That, in combination with SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED's freelist pointer
mangling, leads to a reliable access violation in form of a #GP which
made the UAF fail fast.

Michal seems to have run into the same issue[1]. He already correctly
diagnosed that commit a7b359fc6a37 ("sched/fair: Correctly insert
cfs_rq's to list on unthrottle") is causing the preconditions for the
UAF to happen by re-adding cfs_rq's also to task groups that have no
more running tasks, i.e. also to dead ones. His analysis, however,
misses the real root cause and it cannot be seen from the crash
backtrace only, as the real offender is tg_unthrottle_up() getting
called via sched_cfs_period_timer() via the timer interrupt at an
inconvenient time.

When unregister_fair_sched_group() unlinks all cfs_rq's from the dying
task group, it doesn't protect itself from getting interrupted. If the
timer interrupt triggers while we iterate over all CPUs or after
unregister_fair_sched_group() has finished but prior to unlinking the
task group, sched_cfs_period_timer() will execute and walk the list of
task groups, trying to unthrottle cfs_rq's, i.e. re-add them to the
dying task group. These will later -- in free_fair_sched_group() -- be
kfree()'ed while still being linked, leading to the fireworks Kevin
and Michal are seeing.

To fix this race, ensure the dying task group gets unlinked first.
However, simply switching the order of unregistering and unlinking the
task group isn't sufficient, as concurrent RCU walkers might still see
it, as can be seen below:

    CPU1:                                      CPU2:
      :                                        timer IRQ:
      :                                          do_sched_cfs_period_timer():
      :                                            :
      :                                            distribute_cfs_runtime():
      :                                              rcu_read_lock();
      :                                              :
      :                                              unthrottle_cfs_rq():
    sched_offline_group():                             :
      :                                                walk_tg_tree_from(…,tg_unthrottle_up,…):
      list_del_rcu(&amp;tg-&gt;list);                           :
 (1)  :                                                  list_for_each_entry_rcu(child, &amp;parent-&gt;children, siblings)
      :                                                    :
 (2)  list_del_rcu(&amp;tg-&gt;siblings);                         :
      :                                                    tg_unthrottle_up():
      unregister_fair_sched_group():                         struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = tg-&gt;cfs_rq[cpu_of(rq)];
        :                                                    :
        list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(tg-&gt;cfs_rq[cpu]);               :
        :                                                    :
        :                                                    if (!cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq) || cfs_rq-&gt;nr_running)
 (3)    :                                                        list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
      :                                                      :
      :                                                    :
      :                                                  :
      :                                                :
      :                                              :
 (4)  :                                              rcu_read_unlock();

CPU 2 walks the task group list in parallel to sched_offline_group(),
specifically, it'll read the soon to be unlinked task group entry at
(1). Unlinking it on CPU 1 at (2) therefore won't prevent CPU 2 from
still passing it on to tg_unthrottle_up(). CPU 1 now tries to unlink
all cfs_rq's via list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() in
unregister_fair_sched_group().  Meanwhile CPU 2 will re-add some of
these at (3), which is the cause of the UAF later on.

To prevent this additional race from happening, we need to wait until
walk_tg_tree_from() has finished traversing the task groups, i.e.
after the RCU read critical section ends in (4). Afterwards we're safe
to call unregister_fair_sched_group(), as each new walk won't see the
dying task group any more.

On top of that, we need to wait yet another RCU grace period after
unregister_fair_sched_group() to ensure print_cfs_stats(), which might
run concurrently, always sees valid objects, i.e. not already free'd
ones.

This patch survives Michal's reproducer[2] for 8h+ now, which used to
trigger within minutes before.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211011172236.11223-1-mkoutny@suse.com/
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211102160228.GA57072@blackbody.suse.cz/

Fixes: a7b359fc6a37 ("sched/fair: Correctly insert cfs_rq's to list on unthrottle")
[peterz: shuffle code around a bit]
Reported-by: Kevin Tanguy &lt;kevin.tanguy@corp.ovh.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Mitigate race cpus_share_cache()/update_top_cache_domain()</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T12:09:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Donnefort</name>
<email>vincent.donnefort@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-04T17:51:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=42dc938a590c96eeb429e1830123fef2366d9c80'/>
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Nothing protects the access to the per_cpu variable sd_llc_id. When testing
the same CPU (i.e. this_cpu == that_cpu), a race condition exists with
update_top_cache_domain(). One scenario being:

              CPU1                            CPU2
  ==================================================================

  per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; 0
                                    partition_sched_domains_locked()
      				      detach_destroy_domains()
  cpus_share_cache(CPUX, CPUX)          update_top_cache_domain(CPUX)
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; 0
                                          per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) = CPUX
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; CPUX
    return false

ttwu_queue_cond() wouldn't catch smp_processor_id() == cpu and the result
is a warning triggered from ttwu_queue_wakelist().

Avoid a such race in cpus_share_cache() by always returning true when
this_cpu == that_cpu.

Fixes: 518cd6234178 ("sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries")
Reported-by: Jing-Ting Wu &lt;jing-ting.wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vincent.donnefort@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104175120.857087-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
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Nothing protects the access to the per_cpu variable sd_llc_id. When testing
the same CPU (i.e. this_cpu == that_cpu), a race condition exists with
update_top_cache_domain(). One scenario being:

              CPU1                            CPU2
  ==================================================================

  per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; 0
                                    partition_sched_domains_locked()
      				      detach_destroy_domains()
  cpus_share_cache(CPUX, CPUX)          update_top_cache_domain(CPUX)
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; 0
                                          per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) = CPUX
    per_cpu(sd_llc_id, CPUX) =&gt; CPUX
    return false

ttwu_queue_cond() wouldn't catch smp_processor_id() == cpu and the result
is a warning triggered from ttwu_queue_wakelist().

Avoid a such race in cpus_share_cache() by always returning true when
this_cpu == that_cpu.

Fixes: 518cd6234178 ("sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries")
Reported-by: Jing-Ting Wu &lt;jing-ting.wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vincent.donnefort@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104175120.857087-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9a7e0a90a454a7826ecbca055a6ec9271b70c686'/>
<id>9a7e0a90a454a7826ecbca055a6ec9271b70c686</id>
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T20:15:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=595b28fb0c8949463d8ec1e485f36d17c870ddb2'/>
<id>595b28fb0c8949463d8ec1e485f36d17c870ddb2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Move futex code into kernel/futex/ and split up the kitchen sink into
   seperate files to make integration of sys_futex_waitv() simpler.

 - Add a new sys_futex_waitv() syscall which allows to wait on multiple
   futexes.

   The main use case is emulating Windows' WaitForMultipleObjects which
   allows Wine to improve the performance of Windows Games. Also native
   Linux games can benefit from this interface as this is a common wait
   pattern for this kind of applications.

 - Add context to ww_mutex_trylock() to provide a path for i915 to
   rework their eviction code step by step without making lockdep upset
   until the final steps of rework are completed. It's also useful for
   regulator and TTM to avoid dropping locks in the non contended path.

 - Lockdep and might_sleep() cleanups and improvements

 - A few improvements for the RT substitutions.

 - The usual small improvements and cleanups.

* tag 'locking-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  locking: Remove spin_lock_flags() etc
  locking/rwsem: Fix comments about reader optimistic lock stealing conditions
  locking: Remove rcu_read_{,un}lock() for preempt_{dis,en}able()
  locking/rwsem: Disable preemption for spinning region
  docs: futex: Fix kernel-doc references
  futex: Fix PREEMPT_RT build
  futex2: Documentation: Document sys_futex_waitv() uAPI
  selftests: futex: Test sys_futex_waitv() wouldblock
  selftests: futex: Test sys_futex_waitv() timeout
  selftests: futex: Add sys_futex_waitv() test
  futex,arm: Wire up sys_futex_waitv()
  futex,x86: Wire up sys_futex_waitv()
  futex: Implement sys_futex_waitv()
  futex: Simplify double_lock_hb()
  futex: Split out wait/wake
  futex: Split out requeue
  futex: Rename mark_wake_futex()
  futex: Rename: match_futex()
  futex: Rename: hb_waiter_{inc,dec,pending}()
  futex: Split out PI futex
  ...
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Move futex code into kernel/futex/ and split up the kitchen sink into
   seperate files to make integration of sys_futex_waitv() simpler.

 - Add a new sys_futex_waitv() syscall which allows to wait on multiple
   futexes.

   The main use case is emulating Windows' WaitForMultipleObjects which
   allows Wine to improve the performance of Windows Games. Also native
   Linux games can benefit from this interface as this is a common wait
   pattern for this kind of applications.

 - Add context to ww_mutex_trylock() to provide a path for i915 to
   rework their eviction code step by step without making lockdep upset
   until the final steps of rework are completed. It's also useful for
   regulator and TTM to avoid dropping locks in the non contended path.

 - Lockdep and might_sleep() cleanups and improvements

 - A few improvements for the RT substitutions.

 - The usual small improvements and cleanups.

* tag 'locking-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  locking: Remove spin_lock_flags() etc
  locking/rwsem: Fix comments about reader optimistic lock stealing conditions
  locking: Remove rcu_read_{,un}lock() for preempt_{dis,en}able()
  locking/rwsem: Disable preemption for spinning region
  docs: futex: Fix kernel-doc references
  futex: Fix PREEMPT_RT build
  futex2: Documentation: Document sys_futex_waitv() uAPI
  selftests: futex: Test sys_futex_waitv() wouldblock
  selftests: futex: Test sys_futex_waitv() timeout
  selftests: futex: Add sys_futex_waitv() test
  futex,arm: Wire up sys_futex_waitv()
  futex,x86: Wire up sys_futex_waitv()
  futex: Implement sys_futex_waitv()
  futex: Simplify double_lock_hb()
  futex: Split out wait/wake
  futex: Split out requeue
  futex: Rename mark_wake_futex()
  futex: Rename: match_futex()
  futex: Rename: hb_waiter_{inc,dec,pending}()
  futex: Split out PI futex
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T16:19:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T16:19:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=33c8846c814c1c27c6e33af005042d15061f948b'/>
<id>33c8846c814c1c27c6e33af005042d15061f948b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - mq-deadline accounting improvements (Bart)

 - blk-wbt timer fix (Andrea)

 - Untangle the block layer includes (Christoph)

 - Rework the poll support to be bio based, which will enable adding
   support for polling for bio based drivers (Christoph)

 - Block layer core support for multi-actuator drives (Damien)

 - blk-crypto improvements (Eric)

 - Batched tag allocation support (me)

 - Request completion batching support (me)

 - Plugging improvements (me)

 - Shared tag set improvements (John)

 - Concurrent queue quiesce support (Ming)

 - Cache bdev in -&gt;private_data for block devices (Pavel)

 - bdev dio improvements (Pavel)

 - Block device invalidation and block size improvements (Xie)

 - Various cleanups, fixes, and improvements (Christoph, Jackie,
   Masahira, Tejun, Yu, Pavel, Zheng, me)

* tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (174 commits)
  blk-mq-debugfs: Show active requests per queue for shared tags
  block: improve readability of blk_mq_end_request_batch()
  virtio-blk: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  nbd: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  block: Add a helper to validate the block size
  block: re-flow blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: prefetch request to be initialized
  block: pass in blk_mq_tags to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: add rq_flags to struct blk_mq_alloc_data
  block: add async version of bio_set_polled
  block: kill DIO_MULTI_BIO
  block: kill unused polling bits in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  block: avoid extra iter advance with async iocb
  block: Add independent access ranges support
  blk-mq: don't issue request directly in case that current is to be blocked
  sbitmap: silence data race warning
  blk-cgroup: synchronize blkg creation against policy deactivation
  block: refactor bio_iov_bvec_set()
  block: add single bio async direct IO helper
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - mq-deadline accounting improvements (Bart)

 - blk-wbt timer fix (Andrea)

 - Untangle the block layer includes (Christoph)

 - Rework the poll support to be bio based, which will enable adding
   support for polling for bio based drivers (Christoph)

 - Block layer core support for multi-actuator drives (Damien)

 - blk-crypto improvements (Eric)

 - Batched tag allocation support (me)

 - Request completion batching support (me)

 - Plugging improvements (me)

 - Shared tag set improvements (John)

 - Concurrent queue quiesce support (Ming)

 - Cache bdev in -&gt;private_data for block devices (Pavel)

 - bdev dio improvements (Pavel)

 - Block device invalidation and block size improvements (Xie)

 - Various cleanups, fixes, and improvements (Christoph, Jackie,
   Masahira, Tejun, Yu, Pavel, Zheng, me)

* tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (174 commits)
  blk-mq-debugfs: Show active requests per queue for shared tags
  block: improve readability of blk_mq_end_request_batch()
  virtio-blk: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  nbd: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  block: Add a helper to validate the block size
  block: re-flow blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: prefetch request to be initialized
  block: pass in blk_mq_tags to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: add rq_flags to struct blk_mq_alloc_data
  block: add async version of bio_set_polled
  block: kill DIO_MULTI_BIO
  block: kill unused polling bits in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  block: avoid extra iter advance with async iocb
  block: Add independent access ranges support
  blk-mq: don't issue request directly in case that current is to be blocked
  sbitmap: silence data race warning
  blk-cgroup: synchronize blkg creation against policy deactivation
  block: refactor bio_iov_bvec_set()
  block: add single bio async direct IO helper
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: cleanup the flush plug helpers</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T15:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-20T14:41:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=008f75a20e7072d0840ec323c39b42206f3fa8a0'/>
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Consolidate the various helpers into a single blk_flush_plug helper that
takes a plk_plug and the from_scheduler bool and switch all callsites to
call it directly.  Checks that the plug is non-NULL must be performed by
the caller, something that most already do anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020144119.142582-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Consolidate the various helpers into a single blk_flush_plug helper that
takes a plk_plug and the from_scheduler bool and switch all callsites to
call it directly.  Checks that the plug is non-NULL must be performed by
the caller, something that most already do anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020144119.142582-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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