linux/kernel, branch v3.4.87

workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item

2014-04-14T13:44:16Z

commit b22ce2785d97423846206cceec4efee0c4afd980 upstream. If !PREEMPT, a kworker running work items back to back can hog CPU. This becomes dangerous when a self-requeueing work item which is waiting for something to happen races against stop_machine. Such self-requeueing work item would requeue itself indefinitely hogging the kworker and CPU it's running on while stop_machine would wait for that CPU to enter stop_machine while preventing anything else from happening on all other CPUs. The two would deadlock. Jamie Liu reports that this deadlock scenario exists around scsi_requeue_run_queue() and libata port multiplier support, where one port may exclude command processing from other ports. With the right timing, scsi_requeue_run_queue() can end up requeueing itself trying to execute an IO which is asked to be retried while another device has an exclusive access, which in turn can't make forward progress due to stop_machine. Fix it by invoking cond_resched() after executing each work item. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Jamie Liu References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1552567 [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Qiang Huang Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Jianguo Wu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion

2014-04-14T13:44:16Z

commit dbda92d16f8655044e082930e4e9d244b87fde77 upstream. commit 07354eb1a74d1 ("locking printk: Annotate logbuf_lock as raw") reintroduced a lock inversion problem which was fixed in commit 0b5e1c5255 ("printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock"). This happened probably when fixing up patch rejects. Restore the ordering and unlock logbuf_lock before releasing console_sem. Signed-off-by: ybu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E807E903FE6CBE4D95E420FBFCC273B827413C@nasanexd01h.na.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Qiang Huang Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Jianguo Wu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: wait_for_auditd() should use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE

2014-04-14T13:44:15Z

commit f000cfdde5de4fc15dead5ccf524359c07eadf2b upstream. audit_log_start() does wait_for_auditd() in a loop until audit_backlog_wait_time passes or audit_skb_queue has a room. If signal_pending() is true this becomes a busy-wait loop, schedule() in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE won't block. Thanks to Guy for fully investigating and explaining the problem. (akpm: that'll cause the system to lock up on a non-preemptible uniprocessor kernel) (Guy: "Our customer was in fact running a uniprocessor machine, and they reported a system hang.") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Guy Streeter Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Qiang Huang Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Jianguo Wu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints

2014-03-24T04:37:06Z

commit 45ab2813d40d88fc575e753c38478de242d03f88 upstream. If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder why the events they enable do not display anything. Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users will make the cause of the problem much clearer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org Fixes: 6d723736e472 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT" Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()

2014-03-24T04:37:05Z

commit 99afb0fd5f05aac467ffa85c36778fec4396209b upstream. It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock(). Holding callback_mutex won't help. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active check

2014-03-24T04:37:05Z

commit c685689fd24d310343ac33942e9a54a974ae9c43 upstream. We hit one rare case below: T1 calling disable_irq(), but hanging at synchronize_irq() always; The corresponding irq thread is in sleeping state; And all CPUs are in idle state; After analysis, we found there is one possible scenerio which causes T1 is waiting there forever: CPU0 CPU1 synchronize_irq() wait_event() spin_lock() atomic_dec_and_test(&threads_active) insert the __wait into queue spin_unlock() if(waitqueue_active) atomic_read(&threads_active) wake_up() Here after inserted the __wait into queue on CPU0, and before test if queue is empty on CPU1, there is no barrier, it maybe cause it is not visible for CPU1 immediately, although CPU0 has updated the queue list. It is similar for CPU0 atomic_read() threads_active also. So we'd need one smp_mb() before waitqueue_active.that, but removing the waitqueue_active() check solves it as wel l and it makes things simple and clear. Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu Cc: Xiaoming Wang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393212590-32543-1-git-send-email-chuansheng.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime

2014-03-24T04:37:03Z

commit 791c9e0292671a3bfa95286bb5c08129d8605618 upstream. dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0 which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met. If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be incorrectly adjusted twice. In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of CPU time. This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of !se->on_rq. I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72 PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART) in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the problem on that platform and kernel version. Signed-off-by: George McCollister Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup: cgroup_subsys->fork() should be called after the task is added to css_set

2014-03-11T23:10:03Z

commit 5edee61edeaaebafe584f8fb7074c1ef4658596b upstream. cgroup core has a bug which violates a basic rule about event notifications - when a new entity needs to be added, you add that to the notification list first and then make the new entity conform to the current state. If done in the reverse order, an event happening inbetween will be lost. cgroup_subsys->fork() is invoked way before the new task is added to the css_set. Currently, cgroup_freezer is the only user of ->fork() and uses it to make new tasks conform to the current state of the freezer. If FROZEN state is requested while fork is in progress between cgroup_fork_callbacks() and cgroup_post_fork(), the child could escape freezing - the cgroup isn't frozen when ->fork() is called and the freezer couldn't see the new task on the css_set. This patch moves cgroup_subsys->fork() invocation to cgroup_post_fork() after the new task is added to the css_set. cgroup_fork_callbacks() is removed. Because now a task may be migrated during cgroup_subsys->fork(), freezer_fork() is updated so that it adheres to the usual RCU locking and the rather pointless comment on why locking can be different there is removed (if it doesn't make anything simpler, why even bother?). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki [hq: Backported to 3.4: - Adjust context - Iterate over first CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT elements of subsys] Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix hotplug splat

2014-03-11T23:10:02Z

commit e3703f8cdfcf39c25c4338c3ad8e68891cca3731 upstream. Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging while having perf events active. It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in __perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from the context. We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go *boom* because you've still got dead entries there. Reported-by: Drew Richardson Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop()

2014-03-11T23:10:02Z

commit 5bdfff96c69a4d5ab9c49e60abf9e070ecd2acbb upstream. When a kworker should die, the kworkre is notified through WORKER_DIE flag instead of kthread_should_stop(). This, IIRC, is primarily to keep the test synchronized inside worker_pool lock. WORKER_DIE is first set while holding pool->lock, the lock is dropped and kthread_stop() is called. Unfortunately, this means that there's a slight chance that the target kworker may see WORKER_DIE before kthread_stop() finishes and exits and frees the target task before or during kthread_stop(). Fix it by pinning the target task before setting WORKER_DIE and putting it after kthread_stop() is done. tj: Improved patch description and comment. Moved pinning above WORKER_DIE for better signify what it's protecting. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman