rcu/nocb: Make local rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave() safe against concurrent deoffloading
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:51:30 +0000 (16:51 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 Dec 2021 00:24:44 +0000 (16:24 -0800)
commit118e0d4a1bc85d4ecea0427e440a72d21ffbfa6a
tree201c06531e250335ce5120a0331ed0c301f13a05
parent614ddad17f22a22e035e2ea37a04815f50362017
rcu/nocb: Make local rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave() safe against concurrent deoffloading

rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave() can be preempted between the call to
rcu_segcblist_is_offloaded() and the actual locking. This matters now
that rcu_core() is preemptible on PREEMPT_RT and the (de-)offloading
process can interrupt the softirq or the rcuc kthread.

As a result we may locklessly call into code that requires nocb locking.
In practice this is a problem while we accelerate callbacks on rcu_core().

Simply disabling interrupts before (instead of after) checking the NOCB
offload state fixes the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
kernel/rcu/tree.h