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Subject: Re: 5.13-rt1 + KVM = WARNING: at fs/eventfd.c:74 eventfd_signal()
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
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        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
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From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:14:36 +0800
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在 2021/7/14 下午6:35, Paolo Bonzini 写道:
> On 14/07/21 11:23, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> This was added in 2020, so it's unlikely to be the direct cause of the
>>> change.  What is a known-good version for the host?
>>>
>>> Since it is not KVM stuff, I'm CCing Michael and Jason.
>>
>> I think this can be probably fixed here:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210618084412.18257-1-zhe.he@windriver.com/ 
>>
>
> That seems wrong; in particular it wouldn't protect against AB/BA 
> deadlocks.
> In fact, the bug is with the locking; the code assumes that
> spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore is non-preemptable and therefore
> increments and decrements the percpu variable inside the critical 
> section.
>
> This obviously does not fly with PREEMPT_RT; the right fix should be
> using a local_lock.  Something like this (untested!!):
>
> --------------- 8< ---------------
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] eventfd: protect eventfd_wake_count with a local_lock
>
> eventfd_signal assumes that spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore is
> non-preemptable and therefore increments and decrements the percpu
> variable inside the critical section.
>
> This obviously does not fly with PREEMPT_RT.  If eventfd_signal is
> preempted and an unrelated thread calls eventfd_signal, the result is
> a spurious WARN.  To avoid this, protect the percpu variable with a
> local_lock.


But local_lock only disable migration not preemption.

Or anything I missed here?

Thanks


>
> Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
> Fixes: b5e683d5cab8 ("eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>
> diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
> index e265b6dd4f34..7d27b6e080ea 100644
> --- a/fs/eventfd.c
> +++ b/fs/eventfd.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/local_lock.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include <linux/idr.h>
>  #include <linux/uio.h>
>
> +static local_lock_t eventfd_wake_lock = 
> INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(eventfd_wake_lock);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, eventfd_wake_count);
>
>  static DEFINE_IDA(eventfd_ida);
> @@ -71,8 +73,11 @@ __u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n)
>       * it returns true, the eventfd_signal() call should be deferred 
> to a
>       * safe context.
>       */
> -    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count)))
> +    local_lock(&eventfd_wake_lock);
> +    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count))) {
> +        local_unlock(&eventfd_wake_lock);
>          return 0;
> +    }
>
>      spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
>      this_cpu_inc(eventfd_wake_count);
> @@ -83,6 +88,7 @@ __u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n)
>          wake_up_locked_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLIN);
>      this_cpu_dec(eventfd_wake_count);
>      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
> +    local_unlock(&eventfd_wake_lock);
>
>      return n;
>  }
>