sched: Fix race in task_group()

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 536b213..5d011ef 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
 	 * a task's CPU. ->pi_lock for waking tasks, rq->lock for runnable tasks.
 	 *
 	 * sched_move_task() holds both and thus holding either pins the cgroup,
-	 * see set_task_rq().
+	 * see task_group().
 	 *
 	 * Furthermore, all task_rq users should acquire both locks, see
 	 * task_rq_lock().
@@ -7658,6 +7658,7 @@ void sched_destroy_group(struct task_group *tg)
  */
 void sched_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	struct task_group *tg;
 	int on_rq, running;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct rq *rq;
@@ -7672,6 +7673,12 @@ void sched_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (unlikely(running))
 		tsk->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, tsk);
 
+	tg = container_of(task_subsys_state_check(tsk, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
+				lockdep_is_held(&tsk->sighand->siglock)),
+			  struct task_group, css);
+	tg = autogroup_task_group(tsk, tg);
+	tsk->sched_task_group = tg;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	if (tsk->sched_class->task_move_group)
 		tsk->sched_class->task_move_group(tsk, on_rq);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 55844f2..c35a1a7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -538,22 +538,19 @@ extern int group_balance_cpu(struct sched_group *sg);
 /*
  * Return the group to which this tasks belongs.
  *
- * We use task_subsys_state_check() and extend the RCU verification with
- * pi->lock and rq->lock because cpu_cgroup_attach() holds those locks for each
- * task it moves into the cgroup. Therefore by holding either of those locks,
- * we pin the task to the current cgroup.
+ * We cannot use task_subsys_state() and friends because the cgroup
+ * subsystem changes that value before the cgroup_subsys::attach() method
+ * is called, therefore we cannot pin it and might observe the wrong value.
+ *
+ * The same is true for autogroup's p->signal->autogroup->tg, the autogroup
+ * core changes this before calling sched_move_task().
+ *
+ * Instead we use a 'copy' which is updated from sched_move_task() while
+ * holding both task_struct::pi_lock and rq::lock.
  */
 static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	struct task_group *tg;
-	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
-
-	css = task_subsys_state_check(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
-			lockdep_is_held(&p->pi_lock) ||
-			lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock));
-	tg = container_of(css, struct task_group, css);
-
-	return autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
+	return p->sched_task_group;
 }
 
 /* Change a task's cfs_rq and parent entity if it moves across CPUs/groups */