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Thomas Gleixner 70fdd9831a alarmtimer: Prevent starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN 
commit d125d1349a upstream.

syzbot reported a RCU stall which is caused by setting up an alarmtimer
with a very small interval and ignoring the signal. The reproducer arms the
alarm timer with a relative expiry of 8ns and an interval of 9ns. Not a
problem per se, but that's an issue when the signal is ignored because then
the timer is immediately rearmed because there is no way to delay that
rearming to the signal delivery path.  See posix_timer_fn() and commit
58229a1899 ("posix-timers: Prevent softirq starvation by small intervals
and SIG_IGN") for details.

The reproducer does not set SIG_IGN explicitely, but it sets up the timers
signal with SIGCONT. That has the same effect as explicitely setting
SIG_IGN for a signal as SIGCONT is ignored if there is no handler set and
the task is not ptraced.

The log clearly shows that:

   [pid  5102] --- SIGCONT {si_signo=SIGCONT, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_timerid=0, si_overrun=316014, si_int=0, si_ptr=NULL} ---

It works because the tasks are traced and therefore the signal is queued so
the tracer can see it, which delays the restart of the timer to the signal
delivery path. But then the tracer is killed:

   [pid  5087] kill(-5102, SIGKILL <unfinished ...>
   ...
   ./strace-static-x86_64: Process 5107 detached

and after it's gone the stall can be observed:

   syzkaller login: [   79.439102][    C0] hrtimer: interrupt took 68471 ns
   [  184.460538][    C1] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
   ...
   [  184.658237][    C1] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
   [  184.664574][    C1] Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
   [  184.669821][    C0] NMI backtrace for cpu 0
   [  184.669831][    C0] CPU: 0 PID: 5108 Comm: syz-executor192 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-next-20230203-syzkaller #0
   ...
   [  184.670036][    C0] Call Trace:
   [  184.670041][    C0]  <IRQ>
   [  184.670045][    C0]  alarmtimer_fired+0x327/0x670

posix_timer_fn() prevents that by checking whether the interval for
timers which have the signal ignored is smaller than a jiffie and
artifically delay it by shifting the next expiry out by a jiffie. That's
accurate vs. the overrun accounting, but slightly inaccurate
vs. timer_gettimer(2).

The comment in that function says what needs to be done and there was a fix
available for the regular userspace induced SIG_IGN mechanism, but that did
not work due to the implicit ignore for SIGCONT and similar signals. This
needs to be worked on, but for now the only available workaround is to do
exactly what posix_timer_fn() does:

Increase the interval of self-rearming timers, which have their signal
ignored, to at least a jiffie.

Interestingly this has been fixed before via commit ff86bf0c65
("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") already, but that fix got
lost in a later rework.

Reported-by: syzbot+b9564ba6e8e00694511b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f2c45807d3 ("alarmtimer: Switch over to generic set/get/rearm routine")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k00q1no2.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
arch perf/x86: Refuse to export capabilities for hybrid PMUs 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix uaf for bfqq in bic_set_bfqq() 2023-02-09 11:28:06 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions 2023-02-14 19:11:56 +01:00
drivers nvme-rdma: stop auth work after tearing down queues in error recovery 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
fs revert "squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table" 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
include mm: extend max struct page size for kmsan 2023-02-22 12:59:54 +01:00
init gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too 2023-01-14 10:33:43 +01:00
io_uring use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel alarmtimer: Prevent starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
lib maple_tree: fix mas_empty_area_rev() lower bound validation 2023-02-09 11:28:23 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/gup: add folio to list when folio_isolate_lru() succeed 2023-02-22 12:59:54 +01:00
net net/sched: tcindex: search key must be 16 bits 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
rust rust: print: avoid evaluating arguments in pr_* macros in unsafe blocks 2023-02-06 08:06:34 +01:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-02-01 08:34:37 +01:00
scripts kbuild: modinst: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is a PKCS#11 URI 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
security use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable mute/micmute LEDs and speaker support for HP Laptops 2023-02-22 12:59:48 +01:00
tools Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()." 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock 2023-02-01 08:34:36 +01:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.12 2023-02-14 19:11:56 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.