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<title>posix-cpu-timers: Clear task::posix_cputimers_work in copy_process()</title>
<updated>2021-11-17T10:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Pratt</name>
<email>mpratt@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-11-01T21:06:15+00:00</published>
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commit ca7752caeaa70bd31d1714af566c9809688544af upstream.

copy_process currently copies task_struct.posix_cputimers_work as-is. If a
timer interrupt arrives while handling clone and before dup_task_struct
completes then the child task will have:

1. posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true
2. posix_cputimers_work.work queued.

copy_process clears task_struct.task_works, so (2) will have no effect and
posix_cpu_timers_work will never run (not to mention it doesn't make sense
for two tasks to share a common linked list).

Since posix_cpu_timers_work never runs, posix_cputimers_work.scheduled is
never cleared. Since scheduled is set, future timer interrupts will skip
scheduling work, with the ultimate result that the task will never receive
timer expirations.

Together, the complete flow is:

1. Task 1 calls clone(), enters kernel.
2. Timer interrupt fires, schedules task work on Task 1.
   2a. task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true
   2b. task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.work added to
       task_struct.task_works.
3. dup_task_struct() copies Task 1 to Task 2.
4. copy_process() clears task_struct.task_works for Task 2.
5. Future timer interrupts on Task 2 see
   task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true and skip scheduling
   work.

Fix this by explicitly clearing contents of task_struct.posix_cputimers_work
in copy_process(). This was never meant to be shared or inherited across
tasks in the first place.

Fixes: 1fb497dd0030 ("posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work")
Reported-by: Rhys Hiltner &lt;rhys@justin.tv&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt &lt;mpratt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211101210615.716522-1-mpratt@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ca7752caeaa70bd31d1714af566c9809688544af upstream.

copy_process currently copies task_struct.posix_cputimers_work as-is. If a
timer interrupt arrives while handling clone and before dup_task_struct
completes then the child task will have:

1. posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true
2. posix_cputimers_work.work queued.

copy_process clears task_struct.task_works, so (2) will have no effect and
posix_cpu_timers_work will never run (not to mention it doesn't make sense
for two tasks to share a common linked list).

Since posix_cpu_timers_work never runs, posix_cputimers_work.scheduled is
never cleared. Since scheduled is set, future timer interrupts will skip
scheduling work, with the ultimate result that the task will never receive
timer expirations.

Together, the complete flow is:

1. Task 1 calls clone(), enters kernel.
2. Timer interrupt fires, schedules task work on Task 1.
   2a. task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true
   2b. task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.work added to
       task_struct.task_works.
3. dup_task_struct() copies Task 1 to Task 2.
4. copy_process() clears task_struct.task_works for Task 2.
5. Future timer interrupts on Task 2 see
   task_struct.posix_cputimers_work.scheduled = true and skip scheduling
   work.

Fix this by explicitly clearing contents of task_struct.posix_cputimers_work
in copy_process(). This was never meant to be shared or inherited across
tasks in the first place.

Fixes: 1fb497dd0030 ("posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work")
Reported-by: Rhys Hiltner &lt;rhys@justin.tv&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt &lt;mpratt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211101210615.716522-1-mpratt@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "posix-cpu-timers: Force next expiration recalc after itimer reset"</title>
<updated>2021-09-16T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-16T08:51:42+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 564005805aadec9cb7e5dc4e14071b8f87cd6b58 which is
commit 406dd42bd1ba0c01babf9cde169bb319e52f6147 upstream.

It is reported to cause regressions.  A proposed fix has been posted,
but it is not in a released kernel yet.  So just revert this from the
stable release so that the bug is fixed.  If it's really needed we can
add it back in in a future release.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ilz1pwaq.fsf@wylie.me.uk
Reported-by: "Alan J. Wylie" &lt;alan@wylie.me.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 564005805aadec9cb7e5dc4e14071b8f87cd6b58 which is
commit 406dd42bd1ba0c01babf9cde169bb319e52f6147 upstream.

It is reported to cause regressions.  A proposed fix has been posted,
but it is not in a released kernel yet.  So just revert this from the
stable release so that the bug is fixed.  If it's really needed we can
add it back in in a future release.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ilz1pwaq.fsf@wylie.me.uk
Reported-by: "Alan J. Wylie" &lt;alan@wylie.me.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hrtimer: Ensure timerfd notification for HIGHRES=n</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-13T13:39:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8c3b5e6ec0fee18bc2ce38d1dfe913413205f908 ]

If high resolution timers are disabled the timerfd notification about a
clock was set event is not happening for all cases which use
clock_was_set_delayed() because that's a NOP for HIGHRES=n, which is wrong.

Make clock_was_set_delayed() unconditially available to fix that.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713135158.196661266@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8c3b5e6ec0fee18bc2ce38d1dfe913413205f908 ]

If high resolution timers are disabled the timerfd notification about a
clock was set event is not happening for all cases which use
clock_was_set_delayed() because that's a NOP for HIGHRES=n, which is wrong.

Make clock_was_set_delayed() unconditially available to fix that.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713135158.196661266@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hrtimer: Avoid double reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns()</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-13T13:39:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 627ef5ae2df8eeccb20d5af0e4cfa4df9e61ed28 ]

If __hrtimer_start_range_ns() is invoked with an already armed hrtimer then
the timer has to be canceled first and then added back. If the timer is the
first expiring timer then on removal the clockevent device is reprogrammed
to the next expiring timer to avoid that the pending expiry fires needlessly.

If the new expiry time ends up to be the first expiry again then the clock
event device has to reprogrammed again.

Avoid this by checking whether the timer is the first to expire and in that
case, keep the timer on the current CPU and delay the reprogramming up to
the point where the timer has been enqueued again.

Reported-by: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713135157.873137732@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 627ef5ae2df8eeccb20d5af0e4cfa4df9e61ed28 ]

If __hrtimer_start_range_ns() is invoked with an already armed hrtimer then
the timer has to be canceled first and then added back. If the timer is the
first expiring timer then on removal the clockevent device is reprogrammed
to the next expiring timer to avoid that the pending expiry fires needlessly.

If the new expiry time ends up to be the first expiry again then the clock
event device has to reprogrammed again.

Avoid this by checking whether the timer is the first to expire and in that
case, keep the timer on the current CPU and delay the reprogramming up to
the point where the timer has been enqueued again.

Reported-by: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713135157.873137732@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-cpu-timers: Force next expiration recalc after itimer reset</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-26T12:55:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 406dd42bd1ba0c01babf9cde169bb319e52f6147 ]

When an itimer deactivates a previously armed expiration, it simply doesn't
do anything. As a result the process wide cputime counter keeps running and
the tick dependency stays set until it reaches the old ghost expiration
value.

This can be reproduced with the following snippet:

	void trigger_process_counter(void)
	{
		struct itimerval n = {};

		n.it_value.tv_sec = 100;
		setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &amp;n, NULL);
		n.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
		setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &amp;n, NULL);
	}

Fix this with resetting the relevant base expiration. This is similar to
disarming a timer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210726125513.271824-4-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 406dd42bd1ba0c01babf9cde169bb319e52f6147 ]

When an itimer deactivates a previously armed expiration, it simply doesn't
do anything. As a result the process wide cputime counter keeps running and
the tick dependency stays set until it reaches the old ghost expiration
value.

This can be reproduced with the following snippet:

	void trigger_process_counter(void)
	{
		struct itimerval n = {};

		n.it_value.tv_sec = 100;
		setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &amp;n, NULL);
		n.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
		setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &amp;n, NULL);
	}

Fix this with resetting the relevant base expiration. This is similar to
disarming a timer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210726125513.271824-4-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timers: Move clearing of base::timer_running under base:: Lock</title>
<updated>2021-07-27T18:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-06T21:40:07+00:00</published>
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syzbot reported KCSAN data races vs. timer_base::timer_running being set to
NULL without holding base::lock in expire_timers().

This looks innocent and most reads are clearly not problematic, but
Frederic identified an issue which is:

 int data = 0;

 void timer_func(struct timer_list *t)
 {
    data = 1;
 }

 CPU 0                                            CPU 1
 ------------------------------                   --------------------------
 base = lock_timer_base(timer, &amp;flags);           raw_spin_unlock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
 if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)                call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk);
   ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);    base-&gt;running_timer = NULL;
 raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;base-&gt;lock, flags);  raw_spin_lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);

 x = data;

If the timer has previously executed on CPU 1 and then CPU 0 can observe
base-&gt;running_timer == NULL and returns, assuming the timer has completed,
but it's not guaranteed on all architectures. The comment for
del_timer_sync() makes that guarantee. Moving the assignment under
base-&gt;lock prevents this.

For non-RT kernel it's performance wise completely irrelevant whether the
store happens before or after taking the lock. For an RT kernel moving the
store under the lock requires an extra unlock/lock pair in the case that
there is a waiter for the timer, but that's not the end of the world.

Reported-by: syzbot+aa7c2385d46c5eba0b89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+abea4558531bae1ba9fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 030dcdd197d7 ("timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfea7gw8.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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syzbot reported KCSAN data races vs. timer_base::timer_running being set to
NULL without holding base::lock in expire_timers().

This looks innocent and most reads are clearly not problematic, but
Frederic identified an issue which is:

 int data = 0;

 void timer_func(struct timer_list *t)
 {
    data = 1;
 }

 CPU 0                                            CPU 1
 ------------------------------                   --------------------------
 base = lock_timer_base(timer, &amp;flags);           raw_spin_unlock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
 if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)                call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk);
   ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);    base-&gt;running_timer = NULL;
 raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;base-&gt;lock, flags);  raw_spin_lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);

 x = data;

If the timer has previously executed on CPU 1 and then CPU 0 can observe
base-&gt;running_timer == NULL and returns, assuming the timer has completed,
but it's not guaranteed on all architectures. The comment for
del_timer_sync() makes that guarantee. Moving the assignment under
base-&gt;lock prevents this.

For non-RT kernel it's performance wise completely irrelevant whether the
store happens before or after taking the lock. For an RT kernel moving the
store under the lock requires an extra unlock/lock pair in the case that
there is a waiter for the timer, but that's not the end of the world.

Reported-by: syzbot+aa7c2385d46c5eba0b89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+abea4558531bae1ba9fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 030dcdd197d7 ("timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfea7gw8.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>timers: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() with no timers pending</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T23:23:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Saenz Julienne</name>
<email>nsaenzju@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-09T14:13:25+00:00</published>
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31cd0e119d50 ("timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when
necessary") subtly altered get_next_timer_interrupt()'s behaviour. The
function no longer consistently returns KTIME_MAX with no timers
pending.

In order to decide if there are any timers pending we check whether the
next expiry will happen NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA jiffies from now.
Unfortunately, the next expiry time and the timer base clock are no
longer updated in unison. The former changes upon certain timer
operations (enqueue, expire, detach), whereas the latter keeps track of
jiffies as they move forward. Ultimately breaking the logic above.

A simplified example:

- Upon entering get_next_timer_interrupt() with:

	jiffies = 1
	base-&gt;clk = 0;
	base-&gt;next_expiry = NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;

  'base-&gt;next_expiry == base-&gt;clk + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA', the function
  returns KTIME_MAX.

- 'base-&gt;clk' is updated to the jiffies value.

- The next time we enter get_next_timer_interrupt(), taking into account
  no timer operations happened:

	base-&gt;clk = 1;
	base-&gt;next_expiry = NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;

  'base-&gt;next_expiry != base-&gt;clk + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA', the function
  returns a valid expire time, which is incorrect.

This ultimately might unnecessarily rearm sched's timer on nohz_full
setups, and add latency to the system[1].

So, introduce 'base-&gt;timers_pending'[2], update it every time
'base-&gt;next_expiry' changes, and use it in get_next_timer_interrupt().

[1] See tick_nohz_stop_tick().
[2] A quick pahole check on x86_64 and arm64 shows it doesn't make
    'struct timer_base' any bigger.

Fixes: 31cd0e119d50 ("timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when necessary")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzju@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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31cd0e119d50 ("timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when
necessary") subtly altered get_next_timer_interrupt()'s behaviour. The
function no longer consistently returns KTIME_MAX with no timers
pending.

In order to decide if there are any timers pending we check whether the
next expiry will happen NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA jiffies from now.
Unfortunately, the next expiry time and the timer base clock are no
longer updated in unison. The former changes upon certain timer
operations (enqueue, expire, detach), whereas the latter keeps track of
jiffies as they move forward. Ultimately breaking the logic above.

A simplified example:

- Upon entering get_next_timer_interrupt() with:

	jiffies = 1
	base-&gt;clk = 0;
	base-&gt;next_expiry = NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;

  'base-&gt;next_expiry == base-&gt;clk + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA', the function
  returns KTIME_MAX.

- 'base-&gt;clk' is updated to the jiffies value.

- The next time we enter get_next_timer_interrupt(), taking into account
  no timer operations happened:

	base-&gt;clk = 1;
	base-&gt;next_expiry = NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;

  'base-&gt;next_expiry != base-&gt;clk + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA', the function
  returns a valid expire time, which is incorrect.

This ultimately might unnecessarily rearm sched's timer on nohz_full
setups, and add latency to the system[1].

So, introduce 'base-&gt;timers_pending'[2], update it every time
'base-&gt;next_expiry' changes, and use it in get_next_timer_interrupt().

[1] See tick_nohz_stop_tick().
[2] A quick pahole check on x86_64 and arm64 shows it doesn't make
    'struct timer_base' any bigger.

Fixes: 31cd0e119d50 ("timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when necessary")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzju@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>posix-cpu-timers: Fix rearm racing against process tick</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T23:20:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-02T23:15:59+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;timers_active already true)

                                           handle_posix_cpu_timers()
                                               check_process_timers()
                                                   stop_process_timers()
                                                       pct-&gt;timers_active = false
       arm_timer(TIMER A)

   tick -&gt; run_posix_cpu_timers()
       // sees !pct-&gt;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) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 60f2ceaa8111 ("posix-cpu-timers: Remove unnecessary locking around cpu_clock_sample_group")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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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-&gt;timers_active already true)

                                           handle_posix_cpu_timers()
                                               check_process_timers()
                                                   stop_process_timers()
                                                       pct-&gt;timers_active = false
       arm_timer(TIMER A)

   tick -&gt; run_posix_cpu_timers()
       // sees !pct-&gt;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) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 60f2ceaa8111 ("posix-cpu-timers: Remove unnecessary locking around cpu_clock_sample_group")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2021-07-04T19:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-04T19:58:33+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep

 - kvfree_rcu() updates

 - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
   maintainers

 - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading

 - SRCU updates

 - Tasks-RCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
  tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
  rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
  rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
  rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
  srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
  rcu: Fix various typos in comments
  rcu/nocb: Unify timers
  rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
  rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
  rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
  rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
  rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
  rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
  rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep

 - kvfree_rcu() updates

 - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
   maintainers

 - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading

 - SRCU updates

 - Tasks-RCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
  tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
  rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
  rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
  rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
  srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
  rcu: Fix various typos in comments
  rcu/nocb: Unify timers
  rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
  rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
  rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
  rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
  rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
  rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
  rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T19:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T19:31:16+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time and clocksource/clockevent related updates:

  Core changes:

   - Infrastructure to support per CPU "broadcast" devices for per CPU
     clockevent devices which stop in deep idle states. This allows us
     to utilize the more efficient architected timer on certain ARM SoCs
     for normal operation instead of permanentely using the slow to
     access SoC specific clockevent device.

   - Print the name of the broadcast/wakeup device in /proc/timer_list

   - Make the clocksource watchdog more robust against delays between
     reading the current active clocksource and the watchdog
     clocksource. Such delays can be caused by NMIs, SMIs and vCPU
     preemption.

     Handle this by reading the watchdog clocksource twice, i.e. before
     and after reading the current active clocksource. In case that the
     two watchdog reads shows an excessive time delta, the read sequence
     is repeated up to 3 times.

   - Improve the debug output and add a test module for the watchdog
     mechanism.

   - Reimplementation of the venerable time64_to_tm() function with a
     faster and significantly smaller version. Straight from the source,
     i.e. the author of the related research paper contributed this!

  Driver changes:

   - No new drivers, not even new device tree bindings!

   - Fixes, improvements and cleanups and all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  time/kunit: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE()
  time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm()
  clockevents: Use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add()
  clocksource: Print deviation in nanoseconds when a clocksource becomes unstable
  clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog
  clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold
  clocksource: Limit number of CPUs checked for clock synchronization
  clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable
  clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected
  clockevents: Add missing parameter documentation
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Drop unnecessary restore
  clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Improve Allwinner A64 timer workaround
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Remove duplicated argument in arm_global_timer
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Make symbol 'gt_clk_rate_change_nb' static
  arm: zynq: don't disable CONFIG_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER due to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ anymore
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Implement rate compensation whenever source clock changes
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Rename unreasonable array names
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Save and restore timer TIOCP_CFG
  clocksource/drivers/mediatek: Ack and disable interrupts on suspend
  clocksource/drivers/samsung_pwm: Constify source IO memory
  ...
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time and clocksource/clockevent related updates:

  Core changes:

   - Infrastructure to support per CPU "broadcast" devices for per CPU
     clockevent devices which stop in deep idle states. This allows us
     to utilize the more efficient architected timer on certain ARM SoCs
     for normal operation instead of permanentely using the slow to
     access SoC specific clockevent device.

   - Print the name of the broadcast/wakeup device in /proc/timer_list

   - Make the clocksource watchdog more robust against delays between
     reading the current active clocksource and the watchdog
     clocksource. Such delays can be caused by NMIs, SMIs and vCPU
     preemption.

     Handle this by reading the watchdog clocksource twice, i.e. before
     and after reading the current active clocksource. In case that the
     two watchdog reads shows an excessive time delta, the read sequence
     is repeated up to 3 times.

   - Improve the debug output and add a test module for the watchdog
     mechanism.

   - Reimplementation of the venerable time64_to_tm() function with a
     faster and significantly smaller version. Straight from the source,
     i.e. the author of the related research paper contributed this!

  Driver changes:

   - No new drivers, not even new device tree bindings!

   - Fixes, improvements and cleanups and all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  time/kunit: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE()
  time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm()
  clockevents: Use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add()
  clocksource: Print deviation in nanoseconds when a clocksource becomes unstable
  clocksource: Provide kernel module to test clocksource watchdog
  clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold
  clocksource: Limit number of CPUs checked for clock synchronization
  clocksource: Check per-CPU clock synchronization when marked unstable
  clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected
  clockevents: Add missing parameter documentation
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Drop unnecessary restore
  clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Improve Allwinner A64 timer workaround
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Remove duplicated argument in arm_global_timer
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Make symbol 'gt_clk_rate_change_nb' static
  arm: zynq: don't disable CONFIG_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER due to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ anymore
  clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Implement rate compensation whenever source clock changes
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic: Rename unreasonable array names
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Save and restore timer TIOCP_CFG
  clocksource/drivers/mediatek: Ack and disable interrupts on suspend
  clocksource/drivers/samsung_pwm: Constify source IO memory
  ...
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