Two small fixes for the time(r) subsystem:
- Handle a subtle race between the clocksource watchdog and a concurrent
clocksource watchdog stop/start sequence correctly to prevent a timer
double add bug.
- Fix the file path for the core time namespace file.
clocksource: Prevent double add_timer_on() for watchdog_timer
Kernel crashes inside QEMU/KVM are observed:
kernel BUG at kernel/time/timer.c:1154!
BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer->function) in add_timer_on().
At the same time another cpu got:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI of poinson pointer 0xdead000000000200 in:
__hlist_del at include/linux/list.h:681
(inlined by) detach_timer at kernel/time/timer.c:818
(inlined by) expire_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1355
(inlined by) __run_timers at kernel/time/timer.c:1686
(inlined by) run_timer_softirq at kernel/time/timer.c:1699
Unfortunately kernel logs are badly scrambled, stacktraces are lost.
Printing the timer->function before the BUG_ON() pointed to
clocksource_watchdog().
The execution of clocksource_watchdog() can race with a sequence of
clocksource_stop_watchdog() .. clocksource_start_watchdog():
expire_timers()
detach_timer(timer, true);
timer->entry.pprev = NULL;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
call_timer_fn
clocksource_watchdog()
clocksource_watchdog_kthread() or
clocksource_unbind()
spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags);
clocksource_stop_watchdog();
del_timer(&watchdog_timer);
watchdog_running = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags);
clocksource_start_watchdog();
add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, ...);
watchdog_running = 1;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&watchdog_lock, flags);
spin_lock(&watchdog_lock);
add_timer_on(&watchdog_timer, ...);
BUG_ON(timer_pending(timer) || !timer->function);
timer_pending() -> true
BUG()
I.e. inside clocksource_watchdog() watchdog_timer could be already armed.
Check timer_pending() before calling add_timer_on(). This is sufficient as
all operations are synchronized by watchdog_lock.
Fixes: 75c5158f70c0 ("timekeeping: Update clocksource with stop_machine")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158048693917.4378.13823603769948933793.stgit@buzz
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