tree fe346dcdb503a15812f8a8d63d6e010f4544c445
parent 2a1c6029940675abb2217b590512dbf691867ec4
author Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> 1490280968 +0100
committer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1491299045 +0200

sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks

A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
    IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30
    PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted

    Call Trace:
    [<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80
    [<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30
    [<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260
    [<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20
    [<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900
    [<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
    [<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0
    [<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190
    [<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60
    [<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390
    [<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0
    [<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180

This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi()
are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while
rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but
not holding pi_lock.

In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer
cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task()
to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio()
which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task"
can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock.

Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.157682758@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>