eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit

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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/eventfd.h b/include/linux/eventfd.h
index fa0a524baed0..305d5f19093b 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventfd.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/percpu-defs.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 /*
  * CAREFUL: Check include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
@@ -43,11 +44,9 @@ int eventfd_ctx_remove_wait_queue(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, wait_queue_entry_t *w
 				  __u64 *cnt);
 void eventfd_ctx_do_read(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 *cnt);
 
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, eventfd_wake_count);
-
-static inline bool eventfd_signal_count(void)
+static inline bool eventfd_signal_allowed(void)
 {
-	return this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count);
+	return !current->in_eventfd_signal;
 }
 
 #else /* CONFIG_EVENTFD */
@@ -78,9 +77,9 @@ static inline int eventfd_ctx_remove_wait_queue(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx,
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 
-static inline bool eventfd_signal_count(void)
+static inline bool eventfd_signal_allowed(void)
 {
-	return false;
+	return true;
 }
 
 static inline void eventfd_ctx_do_read(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 *cnt)