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Draft: CVE-2024-49866: tracing/timerlat: Fix a race during cpuhp processing

CKI Backport Bot requested to merge redhat/red-hat-ci-tools/kernel/bot-branches/centos-stream-9:backport-RHEL-63571-centos-stream-9-main into main

JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-63571
CVE: CVE-2024-49866

tracing/timerlat: Fix a race during cpuhp processing

There is another found exception that the "timerlat/1" thread was
scheduled on CPU0, and lead to timer corruption finally:

ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object: ffff888237c2e108 object type: hrtimer hint: timerlat_irq+0x0/0x220 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 426 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 426 Comm: timerlat/1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7+ #45 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ... Call Trace: ? __warn+0x7c/0x110 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1d0 ? prb_read_valid+0x17/0x20 ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70 ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? __pfx_timerlat_irq+0x10/0x10 __debug_object_init+0x110/0x150 hrtimer_init+0x1d/0x60 timerlat_main+0xab/0x2d0 ? __pfx_timerlat_main+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xb7/0xe0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x40 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 


After tracing the scheduling event, it was discovered that the migration
of the "timerlat/1" thread was performed during thread creation. Further
analysis confirmed that it is because the CPU online processing for
osnoise is implemented through workers, which is asynchronous with the
offline processing. When the worker was scheduled to create a thread, the
CPU may has already been removed from the cpu_online_mask during the offline
process, resulting in the inability to select the right CPU:

T1                       | T2
[CPUHP_ONLINE]           | cpu_device_down()
osnoise_hotplug_workfn() |
                         |     cpus_write_lock()
                         |     takedown_cpu(1)
                         |     cpus_write_unlock()
[CPUHP_OFFLINE]          |
    cpus_read_lock()     |
    start_kthread(1)     |
    cpus_read_unlock()   |

To fix this, skip online processing if the CPU is already offline.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240924094515.3561410-4-liwei391@huawei.com
Fixes: c8895e271f79 ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
(cherry picked from commit 829e0c9f0855f26b3ae830d17b24aec103f7e915)

Signed-off-by: CKI Backport Bot cki-ci-bot+cki-gitlab-backport-bot@redhat.com

Created 2024-10-22 06:44 UTC by backporter - KWF FAQ - Slack #team-kernel-workflow - Source - Documentation - Report an issue

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