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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/patches-rt/0349-timers-Move-clearing-of-base-timer_running-under-bas.patch')
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1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/patches-rt/0349-timers-Move-clearing-of-base-timer_running-under-bas.patch b/debian/patches-rt/0349-timers-Move-clearing-of-base-timer_running-under-bas.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d01940b4c --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches-rt/0349-timers-Move-clearing-of-base-timer_running-under-bas.patch @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> +Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:50:05 +0100 +Subject: [PATCH 349/351] timers: Move clearing of base::timer_running under + base:: Lock +Origin: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/commit?id=eee43f1aec23fc7a8d80e59c805ddfeacfe1eac5 + +Upstream commit bb7262b295472eb6858b5c49893954794027cd84 + +syzbot reported KCSAN data races vs. timer_base::timer_running being set to +NULL without holding base::lock in expire_timers(). + +This looks innocent and most reads are clearly not problematic, but +Frederic identified an issue which is: + + int data = 0; + + void timer_func(struct timer_list *t) + { + data = 1; + } + + CPU 0 CPU 1 + ------------------------------ -------------------------- + base = lock_timer_base(timer, &flags); raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock); + if (base->running_timer != timer) call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk); + ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true); base->running_timer = NULL; + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags); raw_spin_lock(&base->lock); + + x = data; + +If the timer has previously executed on CPU 1 and then CPU 0 can observe +base->running_timer == NULL and returns, assuming the timer has completed, +but it's not guaranteed on all architectures. The comment for +del_timer_sync() makes that guarantee. Moving the assignment under +base->lock prevents this. + +For non-RT kernel it's performance wise completely irrelevant whether the +store happens before or after taking the lock. For an RT kernel moving the +store under the lock requires an extra unlock/lock pair in the case that +there is a waiter for the timer, but that's not the end of the world. + +Reported-by: syzbot+aa7c2385d46c5eba0b89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com +Reported-by: syzbot+abea4558531bae1ba9fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com +Fixes: 030dcdd197d7 ("timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT") +Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> +Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> +Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfea7gw8.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de +Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org +Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> +Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> +--- + kernel/time/timer.c | 6 ++++-- + 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c +index b859ecf6424b..603985720f54 100644 +--- a/kernel/time/timer.c ++++ b/kernel/time/timer.c +@@ -1282,8 +1282,10 @@ static inline void timer_base_unlock_expiry(struct timer_base *base) + static void timer_sync_wait_running(struct timer_base *base) + { + if (atomic_read(&base->timer_waiters)) { ++ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock); + spin_unlock(&base->expiry_lock); + spin_lock(&base->expiry_lock); ++ raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock); + } + } + +@@ -1458,14 +1460,14 @@ static void expire_timers(struct timer_base *base, struct hlist_head *head) + if (timer->flags & TIMER_IRQSAFE) { + raw_spin_unlock(&base->lock); + call_timer_fn(timer, fn); +- base->running_timer = NULL; + raw_spin_lock(&base->lock); ++ base->running_timer = NULL; + } else { + raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock); + call_timer_fn(timer, fn); ++ raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock); + base->running_timer = NULL; + timer_sync_wait_running(base); +- raw_spin_lock_irq(&base->lock); + } + } + } |