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From 7856e6900a09ed537366a5e0c774be8926ee022e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:50:21 +0000
Subject: watchdog: fix watchdog may detect false positive of softlockup
When updating `watchdog_thresh`, there is a race condition between writing
the new `watchdog_thresh` value and stopping the old watchdog timer. If
the old timer triggers during this window, it may falsely detect a
softlockup due to the old interval and the new `watchdog_thresh` value
being used. The problem can be described as follow:
# We asuume previous watchdog_thresh is 60, so the watchdog timer is
# coming every 24s.
echo 10 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh (User space)
|
+------>+ update watchdog_thresh (We are in kernel now)
|
| # using old interval and new `watchdog_thresh`
+------>+ watchdog hrtimer (irq context: detect softlockup)
|
|
+-------+
|
|
+ softlockup_stop_all
To fix this problem, introduce a shadow variable for `watchdog_thresh`.
The update to the actual `watchdog_thresh` is delayed until after the old
timer is stopped, preventing false positives.
The following testcase may help to understand this problem.
---------------------------------------------
echo RT_RUNTIME_SHARE > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/features
echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/fair_server/cpu3/runtime
echo 60 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
taskset -c 3 chrt -r 99 /bin/bash -c "while true;do true; done" &
echo 10 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh &
---------------------------------------------
The test case above first removes the throttling restrictions for
real-time tasks. It then sets watchdog_thresh to 60 and executes a
real-time task ,a simple while(1) loop, on cpu3. Consequently, the final
command gets blocked because the presence of this real-time thread
prevents kworker:3 from being selected by the scheduler. This eventually
triggers a softlockup detection on cpu3 due to watchdog_timer_fn operating
with inconsistent variable - using both the old interval and the updated
watchdog_thresh simultaneously.
[nysal@linux.ibm.com: fix the SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=n case]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250502111120.282690-1-nysal@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250421035021.3507649-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A. <nysal@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A." <nysal@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ int __read_mostly watchdog_user_enabled
static int __read_mostly watchdog_hardlockup_user_enabled = WATCHDOG_HARDLOCKUP_DEFAULT;
static int __read_mostly watchdog_softlockup_user_enabled = 1;
int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
+static int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh_next;
static int __read_mostly watchdog_hardlockup_available;
struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
@@ -870,12 +871,20 @@ int lockup_detector_offline_cpu(unsigned
return 0;
}
-static void __lockup_detector_reconfigure(void)
+static void __lockup_detector_reconfigure(bool thresh_changed)
{
cpus_read_lock();
watchdog_hardlockup_stop();
softlockup_stop_all();
+ /*
+ * To prevent watchdog_timer_fn from using the old interval and
+ * the new watchdog_thresh at the same time, which could lead to
+ * false softlockup reports, it is necessary to update the
+ * watchdog_thresh after the softlockup is completed.
+ */
+ if (thresh_changed)
+ watchdog_thresh = READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh_next);
set_sample_period();
lockup_detector_update_enable();
if (watchdog_enabled && watchdog_thresh)
@@ -888,7 +897,7 @@ static void __lockup_detector_reconfigur
void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void)
{
mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex);
- __lockup_detector_reconfigure();
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(false);
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
}
@@ -908,27 +917,29 @@ static __init void lockup_detector_setup
return;
mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex);
- __lockup_detector_reconfigure();
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(false);
softlockup_initialized = true;
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
}
#else /* CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR */
-static void __lockup_detector_reconfigure(void)
+static void __lockup_detector_reconfigure(bool thresh_changed)
{
cpus_read_lock();
watchdog_hardlockup_stop();
+ if (thresh_changed)
+ watchdog_thresh = READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh_next);
lockup_detector_update_enable();
watchdog_hardlockup_start();
cpus_read_unlock();
}
void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void)
{
- __lockup_detector_reconfigure();
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(false);
}
static inline void lockup_detector_setup(void)
{
- __lockup_detector_reconfigure();
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(false);
}
#endif /* !CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR */
@@ -946,11 +957,11 @@ void lockup_detector_soft_poweroff(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
/* Propagate any changes to the watchdog infrastructure */
-static void proc_watchdog_update(void)
+static void proc_watchdog_update(bool thresh_changed)
{
/* Remove impossible cpus to keep sysctl output clean. */
cpumask_and(&watchdog_cpumask, &watchdog_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
- __lockup_detector_reconfigure();
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(thresh_changed);
}
/*
@@ -984,7 +995,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic
} else {
err = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
if (!err && old != READ_ONCE(*param))
- proc_watchdog_update();
+ proc_watchdog_update(false);
}
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
return err;
@@ -1035,11 +1046,13 @@ static int proc_watchdog_thresh(const st
mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex);
- old = READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh);
+ watchdog_thresh_next = READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh);
+
+ old = watchdog_thresh_next;
err = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
- if (!err && write && old != READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh))
- proc_watchdog_update();
+ if (!err && write && old != READ_ONCE(watchdog_thresh_next))
+ proc_watchdog_update(true);
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
return err;
@@ -1060,7 +1073,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_cpumask(const s
err = proc_do_large_bitmap(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
if (!err && write)
- proc_watchdog_update();
+ proc_watchdog_update(false);
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
return err;
@@ -1080,7 +1093,7 @@ static const struct ctl_table watchdog_s
},
{
.procname = "watchdog_thresh",
- .data = &watchdog_thresh,
+ .data = &watchdog_thresh_next,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_watchdog_thresh,
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