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eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit

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The recursion protection for eventfd_signal() is based on a per CPU
variable and relies on the !RT semantics of spin_lock_irqsave() for
protecting this per CPU variable. On RT kernels spin_lock_irqsave() neither
disables preemption nor interrupts which allows the spin lock held section
to be preempted. If the preempting task invokes eventfd_signal() as well,
then the recursion warning triggers.

Paolo suggested to protect the per CPU variable with a local lock, but
that's heavyweight and actually not necessary. The goal of this protection
is to prevent the task stack from overflowing, which can be achieved with a
per task recursion protection as well.

Replace the per CPU variable with a per task bit similar to other recursion
protection bits like task_struct::in_page_owner. This works on both !RT and
RT kernels and removes as a side effect the extra per CPU storage.

No functional change for !RT kernels.

Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnp9idso.ffs@tglx
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Thomas Gleixner
2021-07-29 13:01:59 +02:00
parent 366e7ad6ba
commit b542e383d8
4 changed files with 15 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ static int aio_poll_wake(struct wait_queue_entry *wait, unsigned mode, int sync,
list_del(&iocb->ki_list);
iocb->ki_res.res = mangle_poll(mask);
req->done = true;
if (iocb->ki_eventfd && eventfd_signal_count()) {
if (iocb->ki_eventfd && eventfd_signal_allowed()) {
iocb = NULL;
INIT_WORK(&req->work, aio_poll_put_work);
schedule_work(&req->work);