From 88aa7cc688d48ddd84558b41d5905a0db9535c4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Shi Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:05:28 -0700 Subject: mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct mmap_sem is on the hot path of kernel, and it very contended, but it is abused too. It is used to protect arg_start|end and evn_start|end when reading /proc/$PID/cmdline and /proc/$PID/environ, but it doesn't make sense since those proc files just expect to read 4 values atomically and not related to VM, they could be set to arbitrary values by C/R. And, the mmap_sem contention may cause unexpected issue like below: INFO: task ps:14018 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Tainted: G E 4.9.79-009.ali3000.alios7.x86_64 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ps D 0 14018 1 0x00000004 Call Trace: schedule+0x36/0x80 rwsem_down_read_failed+0xf0/0x150 call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x30 down_read+0x20/0x40 proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xd9/0x4e0 __vfs_read+0x37/0x150 vfs_read+0x96/0x130 SyS_read+0x55/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xc5 Both Alexey Dobriyan and Michal Hocko suggested to use dedicated lock for them to mitigate the abuse of mmap_sem. So, introduce a new spinlock in mm_struct to protect the concurrent access to arg_start|end, env_start|end and others, as well as replace write map_sem to read to protect the race condition between prctl and sys_brk which might break check_data_rlimit(), and makes prctl more friendly to other VM operations. This patch just eliminates the abuse of mmap_sem, but it can't resolve the above hung task warning completely since the later access_remote_vm() call needs acquire mmap_sem. The mmap_sem scalability issue will be solved in the future. [yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: add comment about mmap_sem and arg_lock] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524077799-80690-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523730291-109696-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sys.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index d1b2b8d934bb..38509dc1f77b 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -2018,7 +2018,11 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data return error; } - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + /* + * arg_lock protects concurent updates but we still need mmap_sem for + * read to exclude races with sys_brk. + */ + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* * We don't validate if these members are pointing to @@ -2032,6 +2036,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data * to any problem in kernel itself */ + spin_lock(&mm->arg_lock); mm->start_code = prctl_map.start_code; mm->end_code = prctl_map.end_code; mm->start_data = prctl_map.start_data; @@ -2043,6 +2048,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data mm->arg_end = prctl_map.arg_end; mm->env_start = prctl_map.env_start; mm->env_end = prctl_map.env_end; + spin_unlock(&mm->arg_lock); /* * Note this update of @saved_auxv is lockless thus @@ -2055,7 +2061,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data if (prctl_map.auxv_size) memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, sizeof(user_auxv)); - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b