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Mel Gorman 0e9f02450d sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation 
A NULL pointer dereference bug was reported on a distribution kernel but
the same issue should be present on mainline kernel. It occured on s390
but should not be arch-specific.  A partial oops looks like:

  Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
  ...
  Call Trace:
    ...
    try_to_wake_up+0xfc/0x450
    vhost_poll_wakeup+0x3a/0x50 [vhost]
    __wake_up_common+0xbc/0x178
    __wake_up_common_lock+0x9e/0x160
    __wake_up_sync_key+0x4e/0x60
    sock_def_readable+0x5e/0x98

The bug hits any time between 1 hour to 3 days. The dereference occurs
in update_cfs_rq_h_load when accumulating h_load. The problem is that
cfq_rq->h_load_next is not protected by any locking and can be updated
by parallel calls to task_h_load. Depending on the compiler, code may be
generated that re-reads cfq_rq->h_load_next after the check for NULL and
then oops when reading se->avg.load_avg. The dissassembly showed that it
was possible to reread h_load_next after the check for NULL.

While this does not appear to be an issue for later compilers, it's still
an accident if the correct code is generated. Full locking in this path
would have high overhead so this patch uses READ_ONCE to read h_load_next
only once and check for NULL before dereferencing. It was confirmed that
there were no further oops after 10 days of testing.

As Peter pointed out, it is also necessary to use WRITE_ONCE() to avoid any
potential problems with store tearing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 685207963b ("sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319123610.nsivgf3mjbjjesxb@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-03 09:50:22 +02:00
..
bpf bpf: verifier: propagate liveness on all frames 2019-03-21 19:57:02 -07:00
cgroup Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
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 memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
events perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-03-22 22:50:41 +01:00
gcov kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c: use struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
irq genirq: Mark expected switch case fall-through 2019-03-23 12:32:01 +01:00
livepatch Merge branch 'for-5.1/atomic-replace' into for-linus 2019-03-05 15:56:59 +01:00
locking locking/lockdep: Only call init_rcu_head() after RCU has been initialized 2019-03-09 14:15:51 +01:00
power treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
printk fbdev changes for v5.1: 2019-03-15 14:22:59 -07:00
rcu Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-06 07:59:36 -08:00
sched sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation 2019-04-03 09:50:22 +02:00
time time/jiffies: Make refined_jiffies static 2019-03-22 13:38:26 +01:00
trace ftrace: Fix warning using plain integer as NULL & spelling corrections 2019-03-26 08:35:36 -04:00
.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_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
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
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
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_pm.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n 2019-03-28 13:34:58 +01:00
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 5.1 Merge Window Pull Request 2019-03-09 15:53:03 -08:00
freezer.c PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
futex.c futex: Ensure that futex address is aligned in handle_futex_death() 2019-03-22 13:05:26 +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
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
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 bpf: introduce bpf_spin_lock 2019-02-01 20:55:38 +01:00
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_core.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
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
kexec.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Search non-suffixed symbol in blacklist 2019-02-13 08:16:40 +01:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-06 10:31:36 -08:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
memremap.c mm/hmm: fix memremap.h, move dev_page_fault_t callback to hmm 2018-12-28 12:11:52 -08:00
module_signing.c modsign: use all trusted keys to verify module signature 2018-11-07 14:41:41 +01:00
module-internal.h
module.c dynamic_debug: add static inline stub for ddebug_add_module 2019-03-07 18:32:00 -08:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous space 2018-11-16 14:11:04 +08:00
panic.c kernel/panic.c: taint: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings 2019-03-07 18:31:59 -08:00
params.c
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
pid.c Fix failure path in alloc_pid() 2018-12-28 12:42:30 -08:00
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 kernel/reboot.c: export pm_power_off_prepare 2018-09-11 16:13:24 +01:00
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 device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
rseq.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
seccomp.c Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-03-07 11:44:01 -08:00
signal.c pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -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: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parking 2019-02-10 21:51:39 +01:00
stackleak.c stackleak: Mark stackleak_track_stack() as notrace 2018-12-05 19:31:44 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
sys_ni.c pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-07 19:25:37 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: define minmax conv functions in terms of non-minmax versions 2019-03-12 10:04:00 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c Merge branches 'doc.2019.01.26a', 'fixes.2019.01.26a', 'sil.2019.01.26a', 'spdx.2019.02.09a', 'srcu.2019.01.26a' and 'torture.2019.01.26a' into HEAD 2019-02-09 08:47:52 -08:00
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_namespace.c userns: also map extents in the reverse map to kernel IDs 2018-11-07 23:51:16 -06:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock() 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory 2018-08-11 02:05:53 -05:00
utsname.c
watchdog_hld.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Respect watchdog cpumask on CPU hotplug 2019-03-28 13:32:01 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h psi: fix aggregation idle shut-off 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Only unregister a registered lockdep key 2019-03-21 12:00:18 +01:00