lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Oct]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] introduce task_rcu_dereference()
From
Date
В Пн, 27/10/2014 в 20:54 +0100, Oleg Nesterov пишет:
> task_struct is only protected by RCU if it was found on a RCU protected
> list (say, for_each_process() or find_task_by_vpid()).
>
> And as Kirill pointed out rq->curr isn't protected by RCU, the scheduler
> drops the (potentially) last reference without RCU gp, this means that we
> need to fix the code which uses foreign_rq->curr under rcu_read_lock().
>
> Add a new helper which can be used to dereferene rq->curr or any other
> pointer to task_struct assuming that it should be cleared or updated
> before the final put_task_struct(). It returns non-NULL only if this
> task can't go away before rcu_read_unlock().
>
> Suggested-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
> kernel/exit.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 857ba40..0ba420e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -2300,6 +2300,7 @@ extern void block_all_signals(int (*notifier)(void *priv), void *priv,
> sigset_t *mask);
> extern void unblock_all_signals(void);
> extern void release_task(struct task_struct * p);
> +extern struct task_struct *task_rcu_dereference(struct task_struct **ptask);
> extern int send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
> extern int force_sigsegv(int, struct task_struct *);
> extern int force_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index 32c58f7..d8b95c2 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -213,6 +213,55 @@ repeat:
> goto repeat;
> }
>
> +struct task_struct *task_rcu_dereference(struct task_struct **ptask)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *task;
> + struct sighand_struct *sighand;
> +
> + /*
> + * We need to verify that release_task() was not called and thus
> + * delayed_put_task_struct() can't run and drop the last reference
> + * before rcu_read_unlock(). We check task->sighand != NULL, but
> + * we can read the already freed and reused memory.
> + */
> + retry:
> + task = rcu_dereference(*ptask);
> + if (!task)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + probe_slab_address(&task->sighand, sighand);
> + /*
> + * Pairs with atomic_dec_and_test(usage) in put_task_struct(task).
> + * If this task was already freed we can not miss the preceding
> + * update of this pointer.
> + */
> + smp_rmb();
> + if (unlikely(task != ACCESS_ONCE(*ptask)))
> + goto retry;
> +
> + /*
> + * Either this is the same task and we can trust sighand != NULL, or
> + * its memory was re-instantiated as another instance of task_struct.
> + * In the latter case the new task can not go away until another rcu
> + * gp pass, so the only problem is that sighand == NULL can be false
> + * positive but we can pretend we got this NULL before it was freed.
> + */
> + if (sighand)
> + return task;
> +
> + /*
> + * We could even eliminate the false positive mentioned above:
> + *
> + * probe_slab_address(&task->sighand, sighand);
> + * if (sighand)
> + * goto retry;
> + *
> + * if sighand != NULL because we read the freed memory we should
> + * see the new pointer, otherwise we will likely return this task.
> + */
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * This checks not only the pgrp, but falls back on the pid if no
> * satisfactory pgrp is found. I dunno - gdb doesn't work correctly

Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-10-28 08:01    [W:0.147 / U:0.416 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site