linux/kernel
Waiman Long a9e9bcb45b locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment
During my rwsem testing, it was found that after a down_read(), the
reader count may occasionally become 0 or even negative. Consequently,
a writer may steal the lock at that time and execute with the reader
in parallel thus breaking the mutual exclusion guarantee of the write
lock. In other words, both readers and writer can become rwsem owners
simultaneously.

The current reader wakeup code does it in one pass to clear waiter->task
and put them into wake_q before fully incrementing the reader count.
Once waiter->task is cleared, the corresponding reader may see it,
finish the critical section and do unlock to decrement the count before
the count is incremented. This is not a problem if there is only one
reader to wake up as the count has been pre-incremented by 1.  It is
a problem if there are more than one readers to be woken up and writer
can steal the lock.

The wakeup was actually done in 2 passes before the following v4.9 commit:

  70800c3c0c ("locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once")

To fix this problem, the wakeup is now done in two passes
again. In the first pass, we collect the readers and count them.
The reader count is then fully incremented. In the second pass, the
waiter->task is then cleared and they are put into wake_q to be woken
up later.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Fixes: 70800c3c0c ("locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190428212557.13482-2-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-07 08:46:46 +02:00
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bpf Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 16:13:31 -07:00
cgroup cgroup/cpuset: Update stale generate_sched_domains() comments 2019-04-19 19:44:14 +02:00
configs kvm_config: add CONFIG_VIRTIO_MENU 2018-10-24 20:55:56 -04:00
debug kdb: use bool for binary state indicators 2018-12-30 08:31:52 +00:00
dma dma/debug: Simplify stracktrace retrieval 2019-04-29 12:37:50 +02:00
events Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 16:13:31 -07:00
gcov kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c: use struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 13:45:04 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Simplify stack trace retrieval 2019-04-29 12:37:56 +02:00
locking locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment 2019-05-07 08:46:46 +02:00
power Power management updates for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-06 19:40:31 -07:00
printk fbdev changes for v5.1: 2019-03-15 14:22:59 -07:00
rcu Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.04.09a', 'doc.2019.03.26b', 'fixes.2019.03.26b', 'srcu.2019.03.26b', 'stall.2019.03.26b' and 'torture.2019.03.26b' into HEAD 2019-04-09 08:08:13 -07:00
sched Power management updates for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-06 19:40:31 -07:00
time Power management updates for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-06 19:40:31 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 16:13:31 -07:00
.gitignore kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
acct.c
async.c async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node 2019-01-31 14:20:54 +01:00
audit.c audit: remove audit_context when CONFIG_ AUDIT and not AUDITSYSCALL 2019-02-03 17:49:35 -05:00
audit.h audit: hide auditsc_get_stamp and audit_serial prototypes 2019-02-07 21:44:27 -05:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: add syscall information to CONFIG_CHANGE records 2019-01-18 17:53:29 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: hand taken context to audit_kill_trees for syscall logging 2019-01-14 18:01:05 -05:00
audit_watch.c audit: add syscall information to CONFIG_CHANGE records 2019-01-18 17:53:29 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: mark expected switch fall-through 2019-02-12 20:17:13 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: remove audit_context when CONFIG_ AUDIT and not AUDITSYSCALL 2019-02-03 17:49:35 -05:00
backtracetest.c backtrace-test: Simplify stack trace handling 2019-04-29 12:37:47 +02:00
bounds.c kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
capability.c LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls 2019-01-25 11:22:43 -08:00
compat.c time: make adjtime compat handling available for 32 bit 2019-02-07 00:13:27 +01:00
configs.c kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
context_tracking.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 14:50:46 -07:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c kexec: export PG_offline to VMCOREINFO 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c SELinux: Remove cred security blob poisoning 2019-01-08 13:18:44 -08:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2019-03-07 10:11:41 -08:00
extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function.c: remove meaningless null pointer check before debugfs_remove_recursive 2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
fork.c fork: Provide a function for copying init_mm 2019-04-30 12:37:51 +02:00
freezer.c
futex.c locking/futex: Allow low-level atomic operations to return -EAGAIN 2019-04-26 13:57:31 +01:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: Use continuously blocked time when reporting. 2019-03-07 18:31:59 -08:00
iomem.c mm/resource: Use resource_overlaps() to simplify region_intersects() 2019-04-19 12:59:36 +02:00
irq_work.c irq_work: Do not raise an IPI when queueing work on the local CPU 2019-04-18 14:07:52 +02:00
jump_label.c locking/static_key: Don't take sleeping locks in __static_key_slow_dec_deferred() 2019-04-29 08:29:21 +02:00
kallsyms.c bpf: Add module name [bpf] to ksymbols for bpf programs 2019-01-21 17:38:56 -03:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks Remove Mysterious Macro Intended to Obscure Weird Behaviours (mmiowb()) 2019-05-06 16:57:52 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt kconfig: warn no new line at end of file 2018-12-15 17:44:35 +09:00
kcov.c kcov: convert kcov.refcount to refcount_t 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
kexec.c
kexec_core.c power/suspend: Add function to disable secondaries for suspend 2019-05-03 19:42:41 +02:00
kexec_file.c kexec_file: kexec_walk_memblock() only walks a dedicated region at kdump 2018-12-06 14:38:50 +00:00
kexec_internal.h
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix error check when reusing optimized probes 2019-04-16 09:38:16 +02:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-06 10:31:36 -08:00
latencytop.c latency_top: Simplify stack trace handling 2019-04-29 12:37:48 +02:00
Makefile x86/uaccess, kcov: Disable stack protector 2019-04-03 11:02:24 +02:00
memremap.c mm/hmm: fix memremap.h, move dev_page_fault_t callback to hmm 2018-12-28 12:11:52 -08:00
module-internal.h
module.c modules: Use vmalloc special flag 2019-04-30 12:37:58 +02:00
module_signing.c modsign: use all trusted keys to verify module signature 2018-11-07 14:41:41 +01:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous space 2018-11-16 14:11:04 +08:00
panic.c s390: simplify disabled_wait 2019-05-02 13:54:11 +02:00
params.c
pid.c Fix failure path in alloc_pid() 2018-12-28 12:42:30 -08:00
pid_namespace.c signal: Use group_send_sig_info to kill all processes in a pid namespace 2018-09-16 16:08:25 +02:00
profile.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: take into account saved_sigmask in PTRACE{GET,SET}SIGMASK 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 13:27:20 -07:00
resource.c mm/resource: Use resource_overlaps() to simplify region_intersects() 2019-04-19 12:59:36 +02:00
rseq.c rseq: Remove superfluous rseq_len from task_struct 2019-04-19 12:39:32 +02:00
seccomp.c seccomp use-after-free fix 2019-04-29 13:24:34 -07:00
signal.c signal: use fdget() since we don't allow O_PATH 2019-04-18 08:35:18 -07:00
smp.c cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM 2019-01-30 19:27:00 +01:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Remove tasklet_hrtimer 2019-03-22 14:36:02 +01:00
stackleak.c stackleak: Mark stackleak_track_stack() as notrace 2018-12-05 19:31:44 -08:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: Provide common infrastructure 2019-04-29 12:37:57 +02:00
stop_machine.c
sys.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-07 19:25:37 -08:00
sys_ni.c pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -07:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: fix out-of-bounds access when setting file-max 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c torture: Don't try to offline the last CPU 2019-03-26 14:42:53 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Replace synchronize_sched() and call_rcu_sched() 2018-11-27 09:21:41 -08:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2019-01-11 18:05:40 -08:00
up.c smp,cpumask: introduce on_each_cpu_cond_mask 2018-10-09 16:51:11 +02:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c userns: also map extents in the reverse map to kernel IDs 2018-11-07 23:51:16 -06:00
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c watchdog: Fix typo in comment 2019-04-18 14:05:51 +02:00
watchdog_hld.c kernel/watchdog_hld.c: hard lockup message should end with a newline 2019-04-19 09:46:05 -07:00
workqueue.c sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock 2019-04-16 16:55:15 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock 2019-04-16 16:55:15 +02:00