From 4850798f6e8f804dca444ba5ba400313167a1356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Elver Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:53:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations To toggle the allocation gates, we set up a delayed work that calls toggle_allocation_gate(). Here we use wait_event() to await an allocation and subsequently disable the static branch again. However, if the kernel has stopped doing allocations entirely, we'd wait indefinitely, and stall the worker task. This may also result in the appropriate warnings if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y. Therefore, introduce a 1 second timeout and use wait_event_timeout(). If the timeout is reached, the static branch is disabled and a new delayed work is scheduled to try setting up an allocation at a later time. Note that, this scenario is very unlikely during normal workloads once the kernel has booted and user space tasks are running. It can, however, happen during early boot after KFENCE has been enabled, when e.g. running tests that do not result in any allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CADYN=9J0DQhizAGB0-jz4HOBBh+05kMBXb4c0cXMS7Qi5NAJiw@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Anders Roxell Signed-off-by: Marco Elver [port kfence feature to rpi-5.10.95] Signed-off-by: Sung-hun Kim Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Seung-Woo Kim Change-Id: Ia4e37404fce3497d6c9d32cae23ffa5d106055da --- mm/kfence/core.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c index 9358f42..933b197 100644 --- a/mm/kfence/core.c +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c @@ -592,7 +592,11 @@ static void toggle_allocation_gate(struct work_struct *work) /* Enable static key, and await allocation to happen. */ atomic_set(&allocation_gate, 0); static_branch_enable(&kfence_allocation_key); - wait_event(allocation_wait, atomic_read(&allocation_gate) != 0); + /* + * Await an allocation. Timeout after 1 second, in case the kernel stops + * doing allocations, to avoid stalling this worker task for too long. + */ + wait_event_timeout(allocation_wait, atomic_read(&allocation_gate) != 0, HZ); /* Disable static key and reset timer. */ static_branch_disable(&kfence_allocation_key); -- 2.7.4