workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()
authorZqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 May 2023 03:53:39 +0000 (11:53 +0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 May 2023 21:57:26 +0000 (11:57 -1000)
commitc8f6219be2e58d7f676935ae90b64abef5d0966a
tree413ea94ccb43432d69dab4ef0e66b9237b463481
parent525ff9c2965770762b81d679820552a208070d59
workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()

Currently, pool->nr_running can be modified from timer tick, that means the
timer tick can run nested inside a not-irq-protected section that's in the
process of modifying nr_running. Consider the following scenario:

CPU0
kworker/0:2 (events)
   worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP | WORKER_REBOUND);
   ->pool->nr_running++;  (1)

   process_one_work()
   ->worker->current_func(work);
     ->schedule()
       ->wq_worker_sleeping()
         ->worker->sleeping = 1;
         ->pool->nr_running--;  (0)
           ....
       ->wq_worker_running()
               ....
               CPU0 by interrupt:
               wq_worker_tick()
               ->worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE);
                 ->pool->nr_running--;  (-1)
         ->worker->flags |= WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE;
               ....
         ->if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
           ->pool->nr_running++;    (will not execute)
         ->worker->sleeping = 0;
         ....
    ->worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE);
      ->pool->nr_running++;  (0)
    ....
    worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP);
    ->pool->nr_running--;   (-1)
    ....
    worker_enter_idle()
    ->WARN_ON_ONCE(pool->nr_workers == pool->nr_idle && pool->nr_running);

if the nr_workers is equal to nr_idle, due to the nr_running is not zero,
will trigger WARN_ON_ONCE().

[    2.460602] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 63 at kernel/workqueue.c:1999 worker_enter_idle+0xb2/0xc0
[    2.462163] Modules linked in:
[    2.463401] CPU: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc2-next-20230519 #1
[    2.463771] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[    2.465127] Workqueue:  0x0 (events)
[    2.465678] RIP: 0010:worker_enter_idle+0xb2/0xc0
...
[    2.472614] Call Trace:
[    2.473152]  <TASK>
[    2.474182]  worker_thread+0x71/0x430
[    2.474992]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
[    2.475263]  kthread+0x103/0x120
[    2.475493]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[    2.476355]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[    2.476635]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[    2.477051]  </TASK>

This commit therefore add the check of worker->sleeping in wq_worker_tick(),
if the worker->sleeping is not zero, directly return.

tj: Updated comment and description.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Closes: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-master/build/next-20230519/testrun/17078554/suite/boot/test/clang-nightly-lkftconfig/log
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/workqueue.c