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…op_kthread()

The timerlat interface will get and put the task that is part of the
"kthread" field of the osn_var to keep it around until all references are
released. But here's a race in the "stop_kthread()" code that will call
put_task_struct() on the kthread if it is not a kernel thread. This can
race with the releasing of the references to that task struct and the
put_task_struct() can be called twice when it should have been called just
once.

Take the interface_lock() in stop_kthread() to synchronize this change.
But to do so, the function stop_per_cpu_kthreads() needs to change the
loop from for_each_online_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() and remove the
cpu_read_lock(), as the interface_lock can not be taken while the cpu
locks are held. The only side effect of this change is that it may do some
extra work, as the per_cpu variables of the offline CPUs would not be set
anyway, and would simply be skipped in the loop.

Remove unneeded "return;" in stop_kthread().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240905113359.2b934242@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: e88ed22 ("tracing/timerlat: Add user-space interface")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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13 changes: 6 additions & 7 deletions kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
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Expand Up @@ -1953,8 +1953,12 @@ static void stop_kthread(unsigned int cpu)
{
struct task_struct *kthread;

mutex_lock(&interface_lock);
kthread = per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread;
if (kthread) {
per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&interface_lock);

if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, &kthread_cpumask) &&
!WARN_ON(!test_bit(OSN_WORKLOAD, &osnoise_options))) {
kthread_stop(kthread);
Expand All @@ -1967,16 +1971,15 @@ static void stop_kthread(unsigned int cpu)
kill_pid(kthread->thread_pid, SIGKILL, 1);
put_task_struct(kthread);
}
per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).kthread = NULL;
} else {
mutex_unlock(&interface_lock);
/* if no workload, just return */
if (!test_bit(OSN_WORKLOAD, &osnoise_options)) {
/*
* This is set in the osnoise tracer case.
*/
per_cpu(per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu).sampling = false;
barrier();
return;
}
}
}
Expand All @@ -1991,12 +1994,8 @@ static void stop_per_cpu_kthreads(void)
{
int cpu;

cpus_read_lock();

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
stop_kthread(cpu);

cpus_read_unlock();
}

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