[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 9d9dbd76c83d32435518ef808fd0023aba5c5d2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Segall <bsegall at google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:16:22 -0700
Subject: sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock

commit 927b54fccbf04207ec92f669dce6806848cbec7d upstream.

__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq->lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq->lock, resulting in deadlock.

Fix this by ensuring that cfs_b->timer_active is cleared only if the
_latest_ call to do_sched_cfs_period_timer is returning as idle. Then
__start_cfs_bandwidth can just call hrtimer_try_to_cancel and wait for
that to succeed or timer_active == 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: pjt at google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181622.22647.16643.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 260f98ec..5c83396 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2459,6 +2459,13 @@ static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun)
 	if (idle)
 		goto out_unlock;

+	/*
+	 * if we have relooped after returning idle once, we need to update our
+	 * status as actually running, so that other cpus doing
+	 * __start_cfs_bandwidth will stop trying to cancel us.
+	 */
+	cfs_b->timer_active = 1;
+
 	__refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime(cfs_b);

 	if (!throttled) {
@@ -2727,11 +2734,11 @@ void __start_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
 	 * (timer_active==0 becomes visible before the hrtimer call-back
 	 * terminates).  In either case we ensure that it's re-programmed
 	 */
-	while (unlikely(hrtimer_active(&cfs_b->period_timer))) {
+	while (unlikely(hrtimer_active(&cfs_b->period_timer)) &&
+	       hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&cfs_b->period_timer) < 0) {
+		/* bounce the lock to allow do_sched_cfs_period_timer to run */
 		raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
-		/* ensure cfs_b->lock is available while we wait */
-		hrtimer_cancel(&cfs_b->period_timer);
-
+		cpu_relax();
 		raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
 		/* if someone else restarted the timer then we're done */
 		if (cfs_b->timer_active)
--
1.8.3.2