cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags

When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index ade2390ffe92..6e39c9bb0dae 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ extern int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void);
 
 static inline int cpuset_do_page_mem_spread(void)
 {
-        return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_PAGE;
+        return task_spread_page(current);
 }
 
 static inline int cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread(void)
 {
-        return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_SLAB;
+        return task_spread_slab(current);
 }
 
 extern int current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(void);
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 5630763956d9..7b1cafefb05e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1903,8 +1903,6 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjusted(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut,
 #define PF_KTHREAD      0x00200000      /* I am a kernel thread */
 #define PF_RANDOMIZE    0x00400000      /* randomize virtual address space */
 #define PF_SWAPWRITE    0x00800000      /* Allowed to write to swap */
-#define PF_SPREAD_PAGE  0x01000000      /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
-#define PF_SPREAD_SLAB  0x02000000      /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
 #define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000    /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_allowed */
 #define PF_MCE_EARLY    0x08000000      /* Early kill for mce process policy */
 #define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000      /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */
@@ -1958,6 +1956,9 @@ static inline void memalloc_noio_restore(unsigned int flags)
 
 /* Per-process atomic flags. */
 #define PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS 0      /* May not gain new privileges. */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_PAGE  1      /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_SLAB  2      /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
+
 
 #define TASK_PFA_TEST(name, func)                                       \
         static inline bool task_##func(struct task_struct *p)           \
@@ -1972,6 +1973,14 @@ static inline void memalloc_noio_restore(unsigned int flags)
 TASK_PFA_TEST(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)
 TASK_PFA_SET(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)
 
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+
 /*
  * task->jobctl flags
  */