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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] cpuset: fix race between hotplug work and later CPU offline
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:17:11PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> One of our machines keeled over trying to rebuild the scheduler domains.
> Mainline produces the same splat:
>
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000607f820054db
> CPU: 2 PID: 149 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc1-master+ #6
> Workqueue: events cpuset_hotplug_workfn
> RIP: build_sched_domains
> Call Trace:
> partition_sched_domains_locked
> rebuild_sched_domains_locked
> cpuset_hotplug_workfn
>
> It happens with cgroup2 and exclusive cpusets only. This reproducer
> triggers it on an 8-cpu vm and works most effectively with no
> preexisting child cgroups:
>
> cd $UNIFIED_ROOT
> mkdir cg1
> echo 4-7 > cg1/cpuset.cpus
> echo root > cg1/cpuset.cpus.partition
>
> # with smt/control reading 'on',
> echo off > /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
>
> RIP maps to
>
> sd->shared = *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sds, sd_id);
>
> from sd_init(). sd_id is calculated earlier in the same function:
>
> cpumask_and(sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_map, tl->mask(cpu));
> sd_id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd));
>
> tl->mask(cpu), which reads cpu_sibling_map on x86, returns an empty mask
> and so cpumask_first() returns >= nr_cpu_ids, which leads to the bogus
> value from per_cpu_ptr() above.
>
> The problem is a race between cpuset_hotplug_workfn() and a later
> offline of CPU N. cpuset_hotplug_workfn() updates the effective masks
> when N is still online, the offline clears N from cpu_sibling_map, and
> then the worker uses the stale effective masks that still have N to
> generate the scheduling domains, leading the worker to read
> N's empty cpu_sibling_map in sd_init().
>
> rebuild_sched_domains_locked() prevented the race during the cgroup2
> cpuset series up until the Fixes commit changed its check. Make the
> check more robust so that it can detect an offline CPU in any exclusive
> cpuset's effective mask, not just the top one.
>
> Fixes: 0ccea8feb980 ("cpuset: Make generate_sched_domains() work with partition")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Works for me. TJ, do I take this or do you want it in the cgroup tree?

In that case:

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

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