6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org
commit 61399e0c5410567ef60cb1cda34cca42903842e3 upstream.
RCU re-initializes the deferred QS irq work everytime before attempting to queue it. However there are situations where the irq work is attempted to be queued even though it is already queued. In that case re-initializing messes-up with the irq work queue that is about to be handled.
The chances for that to happen are higher when the architecture doesn't support self-IPIs and irq work are then all lazy, such as with the following sequence:
1) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled and there is a grace period involving blocked tasks on the node. The irq work is then initialized and queued.
2) The related tasks are unblocked and the CPU quiescent state is reported. rdp->defer_qs_iw_pending is reset to DEFER_QS_IDLE, allowing the irq work to be requeued in the future (note the previous one hasn't fired yet).
3) A new grace period starts and the node has blocked tasks.
4) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled again. The irq work is re-initialized (but it's queued! and its node is cleared) and requeued. Which means it's requeued to itself.
5) The irq work finally fires with the tick. But since it was requeued to itself, it loops and hangs.
Fix this with initializing the irq work only once before the CPU boots.
Fixes: b41642c87716 ("rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work") Reported-by: kernel test robot oliver.sang@intel.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202508071303.c1134cce-lkp@intel.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes joelagnelf@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 ++ kernel/rcu/tree.h | 1 + kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 8 ++++++-- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -5027,6 +5027,8 @@ int rcutree_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu rdp->rcu_iw_gp_seq = rdp->gp_seq - 1; trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rdp->gp_seq, TPS("cpuonl")); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags); + + rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_init(rdp); rcu_spawn_rnp_kthreads(rnp); rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(cpu); ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(rcu_state.n_online_cpus); --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h @@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ static int rcu_print_task_exp_stall(stru static void rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp); static void rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq(int user); static void dump_blkd_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp, int ncheck); +static void rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_init(struct rcu_data *rdp); static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags); static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp); static bool rcu_is_callbacks_kthread(struct rcu_data *rdp); --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -698,8 +698,6 @@ static void rcu_read_unlock_special(stru cpu_online(rdp->cpu)) { // Get scheduler to re-evaluate and call hooks. // If !IRQ_WORK, FQS scan will eventually IPI. - rdp->defer_qs_iw = - IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD(rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler); rdp->defer_qs_iw_pending = DEFER_QS_PENDING; irq_work_queue_on(&rdp->defer_qs_iw, rdp->cpu); } @@ -839,6 +837,10 @@ dump_blkd_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp, in } }
+static void rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_init(struct rcu_data *rdp) +{ + rdp->defer_qs_iw = IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD(rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler); +} #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
/* @@ -1038,6 +1040,8 @@ dump_blkd_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp, in WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&rnp->blkd_tasks)); }
+static void rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_init(struct rcu_data *rdp) { } + #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
/*