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<entry>
<title>workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-23T12:36:15+00:00</published>
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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamie Iles</name>
<email>jamie.iles@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T00:57:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ]

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &amp;
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ]

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &amp;
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Fix overflow in get_next_timer_interrupt</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matija Glavinic Pecotic</name>
<email>matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T07:11:52+00:00</published>
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commit 34f41c0316ed52b0b44542491d89278efdaa70e4 upstream.

For e.g. HZ=100, timer being 430 jiffies in the future, and 32 bit
unsigned int, there is an overflow on unsigned int right-hand side
of the expression which results with wrong values being returned.

Type cast the multiplier to 64bit to avoid that issue.

Fixes: 46c8f0b077a8 ("timers: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() computation")
Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: khilman@baylibre.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a7900f04-2a21-c9fd-67be-ab334d459ee5@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 34f41c0316ed52b0b44542491d89278efdaa70e4 upstream.

For e.g. HZ=100, timer being 430 jiffies in the future, and 32 bit
unsigned int, there is an overflow on unsigned int right-hand side
of the expression which results with wrong values being returned.

Type cast the multiplier to 64bit to avoid that issue.

Fixes: 46c8f0b077a8 ("timers: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() computation")
Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic &lt;matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: khilman@baylibre.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a7900f04-2a21-c9fd-67be-ab334d459ee5@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: fix a deadlock due to incomplete patching of cpusets_enabled()</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dmitriyz@waymo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:32:18+00:00</published>
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commit 89affbf5d9ebb15c6460596822e8857ea2f9e735 upstream.

In codepaths that use the begin/retry interface for reading
mems_allowed_seq with irqs disabled, there exists a race condition that
stalls the patch process after only modifying a subset of the
static_branch call sites.

This problem manifested itself as a deadlock in the slub allocator,
inside get_any_partial.  The loop reads mems_allowed_seq value (via
read_mems_allowed_begin), performs the defrag operation, and then
verifies the consistency of mem_allowed via the read_mems_allowed_retry
and the cookie returned by xxx_begin.

The issue here is that both begin and retry first check if cpusets are
enabled via cpusets_enabled() static branch.  This branch can be
rewritted dynamically (via cpuset_inc) if a new cpuset is created.  The
x86 jump label code fully synchronizes across all CPUs for every entry
it rewrites.  If it rewrites only one of the callsites (specifically the
one in read_mems_allowed_retry) and then waits for the
smp_call_function(do_sync_core) to complete while a CPU is inside the
begin/retry section with IRQs off and the mems_allowed value is changed,
we can hang.

This is because begin() will always return 0 (since it wasn't patched
yet) while retry() will test the 0 against the actual value of the seq
counter.

The fix is to use two different static keys: one for begin
(pre_enable_key) and one for retry (enable_key).  In cpuset_inc(), we
first bump the pre_enable key to ensure that cpuset_mems_allowed_begin()
always return a valid seqcount if are enabling cpusets.  Similarly, when
disabling cpusets via cpuset_dec(), we first ensure that callers of
cpuset_mems_allowed_retry() will start ignoring the seqcount value
before we let cpuset_mems_allowed_begin() return 0.

The relevant stack traces of the two stuck threads:

  CPU: 1 PID: 1415 Comm: mkdir Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8817f9c28000 task.stack: ffffc9000ffa4000
  RIP: smp_call_function_many+0x1f9/0x260
  Call Trace:
    smp_call_function+0x3b/0x70
    on_each_cpu+0x2f/0x90
    text_poke_bp+0x87/0xd0
    arch_jump_label_transform+0x93/0x100
    __jump_label_update+0x77/0x90
    jump_label_update+0xaa/0xc0
    static_key_slow_inc+0x9e/0xb0
    cpuset_css_online+0x70/0x2e0
    online_css+0x2c/0xa0
    cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x27f/0x3d0
    cgroup_mkdir+0x2b7/0x420
    kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5a/0x80
    vfs_mkdir+0xf6/0x1a0
    SyS_mkdir+0xb7/0xe0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

  ...

  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8818087c0000 task.stack: ffffc90000030000
  RIP: int3+0x39/0x70
  Call Trace:
    &lt;#DB&gt; ? ___slab_alloc+0x28b/0x5a0
    &lt;EOE&gt; ? copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    __slab_alloc.isra.80+0x54/0x90
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8a/0x280
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    _do_fork+0xe7/0x6c0
    _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x60
    trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x136/0x1d0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xad
    do_syscall_64+0x27/0x350
    SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x60/0x350
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731040113.14197-1-dmitriyz@waymo.com
Fixes: 46e700abc44c ("mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dmitriyz@waymo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Cliff Spradlin &lt;cspradlin@waymo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 89affbf5d9ebb15c6460596822e8857ea2f9e735 upstream.

In codepaths that use the begin/retry interface for reading
mems_allowed_seq with irqs disabled, there exists a race condition that
stalls the patch process after only modifying a subset of the
static_branch call sites.

This problem manifested itself as a deadlock in the slub allocator,
inside get_any_partial.  The loop reads mems_allowed_seq value (via
read_mems_allowed_begin), performs the defrag operation, and then
verifies the consistency of mem_allowed via the read_mems_allowed_retry
and the cookie returned by xxx_begin.

The issue here is that both begin and retry first check if cpusets are
enabled via cpusets_enabled() static branch.  This branch can be
rewritted dynamically (via cpuset_inc) if a new cpuset is created.  The
x86 jump label code fully synchronizes across all CPUs for every entry
it rewrites.  If it rewrites only one of the callsites (specifically the
one in read_mems_allowed_retry) and then waits for the
smp_call_function(do_sync_core) to complete while a CPU is inside the
begin/retry section with IRQs off and the mems_allowed value is changed,
we can hang.

This is because begin() will always return 0 (since it wasn't patched
yet) while retry() will test the 0 against the actual value of the seq
counter.

The fix is to use two different static keys: one for begin
(pre_enable_key) and one for retry (enable_key).  In cpuset_inc(), we
first bump the pre_enable key to ensure that cpuset_mems_allowed_begin()
always return a valid seqcount if are enabling cpusets.  Similarly, when
disabling cpusets via cpuset_dec(), we first ensure that callers of
cpuset_mems_allowed_retry() will start ignoring the seqcount value
before we let cpuset_mems_allowed_begin() return 0.

The relevant stack traces of the two stuck threads:

  CPU: 1 PID: 1415 Comm: mkdir Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8817f9c28000 task.stack: ffffc9000ffa4000
  RIP: smp_call_function_many+0x1f9/0x260
  Call Trace:
    smp_call_function+0x3b/0x70
    on_each_cpu+0x2f/0x90
    text_poke_bp+0x87/0xd0
    arch_jump_label_transform+0x93/0x100
    __jump_label_update+0x77/0x90
    jump_label_update+0xaa/0xc0
    static_key_slow_inc+0x9e/0xb0
    cpuset_css_online+0x70/0x2e0
    online_css+0x2c/0xa0
    cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x27f/0x3d0
    cgroup_mkdir+0x2b7/0x420
    kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5a/0x80
    vfs_mkdir+0xf6/0x1a0
    SyS_mkdir+0xb7/0xe0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

  ...

  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8818087c0000 task.stack: ffffc90000030000
  RIP: int3+0x39/0x70
  Call Trace:
    &lt;#DB&gt; ? ___slab_alloc+0x28b/0x5a0
    &lt;EOE&gt; ? copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    __slab_alloc.isra.80+0x54/0x90
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8a/0x280
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    _do_fork+0xe7/0x6c0
    _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x60
    trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x136/0x1d0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xad
    do_syscall_64+0x27/0x350
    SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x60/0x350
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731040113.14197-1-dmitriyz@waymo.com
Fixes: 46e700abc44c ("mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dmitriyz@waymo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Cliff Spradlin &lt;cspradlin@waymo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T22:41:52+00:00</published>
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commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream.

The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
ordered execution.  After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue:
implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer
true due to per-node worker pools.

While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is
alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a
long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered
workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to
trigger.

It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing
ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues.  Let's
automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik &lt;alexei@purestorage.com&gt;
Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream.

The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
ordered execution.  After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue:
implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer
true due to per-node worker pools.

While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is
alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a
long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered
workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to
trigger.

It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing
ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues.  Let's
automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik &lt;alexei@purestorage.com&gt;
Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroup: fix error return value from cgroup_subtree_control()</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-23T12:14:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=445ee6cdd91ea6b2f65653ca05f3e951d8458ebc'/>
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commit 3c74541777302eec43a0d1327c4d58b8659a776b upstream.

While refactoring, f7b2814bb9b6 ("cgroup: factor out
cgroup_{apply|finalize}_control() from
cgroup_subtree_control_write()") broke error return value from the
function.  The return value from the last operation is always
overridden to zero.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3c74541777302eec43a0d1327c4d58b8659a776b upstream.

While refactoring, f7b2814bb9b6 ("cgroup: factor out
cgroup_{apply|finalize}_control() from
cgroup_subtree_control_write()") broke error return value from the
function.  The return value from the last operation is always
overridden to zero.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>cgroup: create dfl_root files on subsys registration</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T21:57:46+00:00</published>
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commit 7af608e4f9530372aec6e940552bf76595f2e265 upstream.

On subsystem registration, css_populate_dir() is not called on the new
root css, so the interface files for the subsystem on cgrp_dfl_root
aren't created on registration.  This is a residue from the days when
cgrp_dfl_root was used only as the parking spot for unused subsystems,
which no longer is true as it's used as the root for cgroup2.

This is often fine as later operations tend to create them as a part
of mount (cgroup1) or subtree_control operations (cgroup2); however,
it's not difficult to mount cgroup2 with the controller interface
files missing as Waiman found out.

Fix it by invoking css_populate_dir() on the root css on subsys
registration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7af608e4f9530372aec6e940552bf76595f2e265 upstream.

On subsystem registration, css_populate_dir() is not called on the new
root css, so the interface files for the subsystem on cgrp_dfl_root
aren't created on registration.  This is a residue from the days when
cgrp_dfl_root was used only as the parking spot for unused subsystems,
which no longer is true as it's used as the root for cgroup2.

This is often fine as later operations tend to create them as a part
of mount (cgroup1) or subtree_control operations (cgroup2); however,
it's not difficult to mount cgroup2 with the controller interface
files missing as Waiman found out.

Fix it by invoking css_populate_dir() on the root css on subsys
registration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/cgroup: Move sched_online_group() back into css_online() to fix crash</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T01:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T11:27:27+00:00</published>
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commit 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b upstream.

Commit:

  2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")

.. moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc().
It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing
generic cgroup stuff.

LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing
similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320
  CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4
  Call Trace:
  ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
  kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60
  print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0
  print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0
  print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80
  ? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30
  seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0
  proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
  __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
  ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
  ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
  vfs_read+0xa5/0x170
  SyS_read+0x46/0xa0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad

Here the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css-&gt;cgroup pointer is still NULL.

This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 96b777452d8881480fd5be50112f791c17db4b6b upstream.

Commit:

  2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")

.. moved sched_online_group() from css_online() to css_alloc().
It exposes half-baked task group into global lists before initializing
generic cgroup stuff.

LTP testcase (third in cgroup_regression_test) written for testing
similar race in kernels 2.6.26-2.6.28 easily triggers this oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: kernfs_path_from_node_locked+0x260/0x320
  CPU: 1 PID: 30346 Comm: cat Not tainted 4.10.0-rc5-test #4
  Call Trace:
  ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
  kernfs_path_from_node+0x3e/0x60
  print_rt_rq+0x44/0x2b0
  print_rt_stats+0x7a/0xd0
  print_cpu+0x2fc/0xe80
  ? __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  sched_debug_show+0x17/0x30
  seq_read+0xf2/0x3b0
  proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
  __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
  ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
  ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
  vfs_read+0xa5/0x170
  SyS_read+0x46/0xa0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad

Here the task group is already linked into the global RCU-protected 'task_groups'
list, but the css-&gt;cgroup pointer is still NULL.

This patch reverts this chunk and moves online back to css_online().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 2f5177f0fd7e ("sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148655324740.424917.5302984537258726349.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>smp/hotplug: Replace BUG_ON and react useful</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T01:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T20:06:24+00:00</published>
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commit dea1d0f5f1284e3defee4b8484d9fc230686cd42 upstream.

The move of the unpark functions to the control thread moved the BUG_ON()
there as well. While it made some sense in the idle thread of the upcoming
CPU, it's bogus to crash the control thread on the already online CPU,
especially as the function has a return value and the callsite is prepared
to handle an error return.

Replace it with a WARN_ON_ONCE() and return a proper error code.

Fixes: 9cd4f1a4e7a8 ("smp/hotplug: Move unparking of percpu threads to the control CPU")
Rightfully-ranted-at-by: Linux Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dea1d0f5f1284e3defee4b8484d9fc230686cd42 upstream.

The move of the unpark functions to the control thread moved the BUG_ON()
there as well. While it made some sense in the idle thread of the upcoming
CPU, it's bogus to crash the control thread on the already online CPU,
especially as the function has a return value and the callsite is prepared
to handle an error return.

Replace it with a WARN_ON_ONCE() and return a proper error code.

Fixes: 9cd4f1a4e7a8 ("smp/hotplug: Move unparking of percpu threads to the control CPU")
Rightfully-ranted-at-by: Linux Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>smp/hotplug: Move unparking of percpu threads to the control CPU</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T01:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T20:20:23+00:00</published>
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commit 9cd4f1a4e7a858849e889a081a99adff83e08e4c upstream.

Vikram reported the following backtrace:

   BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/7/0/0x00000002
   CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 4.9.32-perf+ #680
   schedule
   schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock
   schedule_hrtimeout
   wait_task_inactive
   __kthread_bind_mask
   __kthread_bind
   __kthread_unpark
   kthread_unpark
   cpuhp_online_idle
   cpu_startup_entry
   secondary_start_kernel

He analyzed correctly that a parked cpu hotplug thread of an offlined CPU
was still on the runqueue when the CPU came back online and tried to unpark
it. This causes the thread which invoked kthread_unpark() to call
wait_task_inactive() and subsequently schedule() with preemption disabled.
His proposed workaround was to "make sure" that a parked thread has
scheduled out when the CPU goes offline, so the situation cannot happen.

But that's still wrong because the root cause is not the fact that the
percpu thread is still on the runqueue and neither that preemption is
disabled, which could be simply solved by enabling preemption before
calling kthread_unpark().

The real issue is that the calling thread is the idle task of the upcoming
CPU, which is not supposed to call anything which might sleep.  The moron,
who wrote that code, missed completely that kthread_unpark() might end up
in schedule().

The solution is simpler than expected. The thread which controls the
hotplug operation is waiting for the CPU to call complete() on the hotplug
state completion. So the idle task of the upcoming CPU can set its state to
CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE and invoke complete(). This in turn wakes the control
task on a different CPU, which then can safely do the unpark and kick the
now unparked hotplug thread of the upcoming CPU to complete the bringup to
the final target state.

Control CPU                     AP

bringup_cpu();
  __cpu_up()  ------------&gt;
				bringup_ap();
  bringup_wait_for_ap()
    wait_for_completion();
                                cpuhp_online_idle();
                &lt;------------    complete();
    unpark(AP-&gt;stopper);
    unpark(AP-&gt;hotplugthread);
                                while(1)
                                  do_idle();
    kick(AP-&gt;hotplugthread);
    wait_for_completion();	hotplug_thread()
				  run_online_callbacks();
				  complete();

Fixes: 8df3e07e7f21 ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up")
Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla &lt;markivx@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Sewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1707042218020.2131@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9cd4f1a4e7a858849e889a081a99adff83e08e4c upstream.

Vikram reported the following backtrace:

   BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/7/0/0x00000002
   CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 4.9.32-perf+ #680
   schedule
   schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock
   schedule_hrtimeout
   wait_task_inactive
   __kthread_bind_mask
   __kthread_bind
   __kthread_unpark
   kthread_unpark
   cpuhp_online_idle
   cpu_startup_entry
   secondary_start_kernel

He analyzed correctly that a parked cpu hotplug thread of an offlined CPU
was still on the runqueue when the CPU came back online and tried to unpark
it. This causes the thread which invoked kthread_unpark() to call
wait_task_inactive() and subsequently schedule() with preemption disabled.
His proposed workaround was to "make sure" that a parked thread has
scheduled out when the CPU goes offline, so the situation cannot happen.

But that's still wrong because the root cause is not the fact that the
percpu thread is still on the runqueue and neither that preemption is
disabled, which could be simply solved by enabling preemption before
calling kthread_unpark().

The real issue is that the calling thread is the idle task of the upcoming
CPU, which is not supposed to call anything which might sleep.  The moron,
who wrote that code, missed completely that kthread_unpark() might end up
in schedule().

The solution is simpler than expected. The thread which controls the
hotplug operation is waiting for the CPU to call complete() on the hotplug
state completion. So the idle task of the upcoming CPU can set its state to
CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE and invoke complete(). This in turn wakes the control
task on a different CPU, which then can safely do the unpark and kick the
now unparked hotplug thread of the upcoming CPU to complete the bringup to
the final target state.

Control CPU                     AP

bringup_cpu();
  __cpu_up()  ------------&gt;
				bringup_ap();
  bringup_wait_for_ap()
    wait_for_completion();
                                cpuhp_online_idle();
                &lt;------------    complete();
    unpark(AP-&gt;stopper);
    unpark(AP-&gt;hotplugthread);
                                while(1)
                                  do_idle();
    kick(AP-&gt;hotplugthread);
    wait_for_completion();	hotplug_thread()
				  run_online_callbacks();
				  complete();

Fixes: 8df3e07e7f21 ("cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up")
Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla &lt;markivx@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Sewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1707042218020.2131@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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