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From:   Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH -next] memcg: fix sleep in invalid context in cgroup_rstat_flush()
Date:   Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:48:05 +0800
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When start the kernel, I got this report:

[   13.787531][  T248] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:200
[   13.788799][  T248] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 248, name: kworker/u8:3
[   13.789971][  T248] 3 locks held by kworker/u8:3/248:
[   13.790638][  T248]  #0: ffff888100100138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x942/0x17d0
[   13.792170][  T248]  #1: ffffc900018bfe00 (stats_flush_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x977/0x17d0
[   13.793477][  T248]  #2: ffffffff8baccf78 (stats_flush_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: mem_cgroup_flush_stats+0xd/0x50
[   13.794815][  T248] Preemption disabled at:
[   13.794821][  T248] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[   13.795951][  T248] CPU: 2 PID: 248 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G        W         5.14.0-rc1-next-20210716+ #342
[   13.797287][  T248] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
[   13.798564][  T248] Workqueue: events_unbound flush_memcg_stats_work
[   13.799400][  T248] Call Trace:
[   13.799817][  T248]  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134
[   13.800405][  T248]  ___might_sleep.cold.155+0x1f2/0x238
[   13.801107][  T248]  cgroup_rstat_flush+0x1c/0x50
[   13.801724][  T248]  mem_cgroup_flush_stats+0x39/0x50
[   13.802131][  T248]  process_one_work+0xa6c/0x17d0
[   13.802131][  T248]  ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x360/0x360
[   13.802131][  T248]  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x121/0x2d0
[   13.802131][  T248]  worker_thread+0x8c/0xda0
[   13.802131][  T248]  ? process_one_work+0x17d0/0x17d0
[   13.802131][  T248]  kthread+0x3d5/0x4c0
[   13.802131][  T248]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x130/0x130
[   13.802131][  T248]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

To fix this, move stats_flush_lock into cgroup_rstat_flush() after might_sleep(),
unlock stats_flush_lock before sleep in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked() and lock
stats_flush_lock after wake up.

Fixes: 42265e014ac7 ("memcg: infrastructure to flush memcg stats")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 7 +++++++
 mm/memcontrol.c       | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
index 7f0e58917432..d7ce96ba0105 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgroup_rstat_lock);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(raw_spinlock_t, cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(stats_flush_lock);
 
 static void cgroup_base_stat_flush(struct cgroup *cgrp, int cpu);
 
@@ -175,8 +176,10 @@ static void cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(struct cgroup *cgrp, bool may_sleep)
 		if (may_sleep && (need_resched() ||
 				  spin_needbreak(&cgroup_rstat_lock))) {
 			spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_rstat_lock);
+			spin_unlock(&stats_flush_lock);
 			if (!cond_resched())
 				cpu_relax();
+			spin_lock(&stats_flush_lock);
 			spin_lock_irq(&cgroup_rstat_lock);
 		}
 	}
@@ -199,9 +202,13 @@ void cgroup_rstat_flush(struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
 	might_sleep();
 
+	if (!spin_trylock(&stats_flush_lock))
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&cgroup_rstat_lock);
 	cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(cgrp, true);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_rstat_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&stats_flush_lock);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 456f5310ea59..c6b0f5b41893 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(stats_flush_dwork, flush_memcg_stats_dwork);
 static void flush_memcg_stats_work(struct work_struct *w);
 static DECLARE_WORK(stats_flush_work, flush_memcg_stats_work);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, stats_flush_threshold);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(stats_flush_lock);
 
 #define THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET 128
 #define SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_TARGET 1024
@@ -5355,11 +5354,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 
 void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
 {
-	if (!spin_trylock(&stats_flush_lock))
-		return;
-
 	cgroup_rstat_flush(root_mem_cgroup->css.cgroup);
-	spin_unlock(&stats_flush_lock);
 }
 
 static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
-- 
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