Re: 5.13-rt1 + KVM = WARNING: at fs/eventfd.c:74 eventfd_signal()

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Jul 15 2021 - 01:58:46 EST


On 15/07/21 06:14, Jason Wang wrote:
This obviously does not fly with PREEMPT_RT.  If eventfd_signal is
preempted and an unrelated thread calls eventfd_signal, the result is
a spurious WARN.  To avoid this, protect the percpu variable with a
local_lock.

But local_lock only disable migration not preemption.

On mainline PREEMPT_RT, local_lock is an array of per-CPU spinlocks. When two eventfd_signals run on the same CPU and one is preempted, the spinlocks avoid that the second sees eventfd_wake_count > 0.

Thanks,

Paolo

Or anything I missed here?

Thanks



Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b5e683d5cab8 ("eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
index e265b6dd4f34..7d27b6e080ea 100644
--- a/fs/eventfd.c
+++ b/fs/eventfd.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/local_lock.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>

+static local_lock_t eventfd_wake_lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(eventfd_wake_lock);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, eventfd_wake_count);

 static DEFINE_IDA(eventfd_ida);
@@ -71,8 +73,11 @@ __u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n)
      * it returns true, the eventfd_signal() call should be deferred to a
      * safe context.
      */
-    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count)))
+    local_lock(&eventfd_wake_lock);
+    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count))) {
+        local_unlock(&eventfd_wake_lock);
         return 0;
+    }

     spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
     this_cpu_inc(eventfd_wake_count);
@@ -83,6 +88,7 @@ __u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n)
         wake_up_locked_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLIN);
     this_cpu_dec(eventfd_wake_count);
     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
+    local_unlock(&eventfd_wake_lock);

     return n;
 }