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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>2017-08-18 15:15:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-08-18 15:32:01 -0700
commit8ada92799ec4de00f4bc0f10b1ededa256c1ab22 (patch)
tree0a46e01c5681017a638409044478f708bdf0792e /include/linux
parent92e5aae457787d0bc6b255200d2fb116edf69794 (diff)
wait: add wait_event_killable_timeout()
These are the few pending fixes I have queued up for v4.13-final. One is a a generic regression fix for recursive loops on kmod and the other one is a trivial print out correction. During the v4.13 development we assumed that recursive kmod loops were no longer possible. Clearly that is not true. The regression fix makes use of a new killable wait. We use a killable wait to be paranoid in how signals might be sent to modprobe and only accept a proper SIGKILL. The signal will only be available to userspace to issue *iff* a thread has already entered a wait state, and that happens only if we've already throttled after 50 kmod threads have been hit. Note that although it may seem excessive to trigger a failure afer 5 seconds if all kmod thread remain busy, prior to the series of changes that went into v4.13 we would actually *always* fatally fail any request which came in if the limit was already reached. The new waiting implemented in v4.13 actually gives us *more* breathing room -- the wait for 5 seconds is a wait for *any* kmod thread to finish. We give up and fail *iff* no kmod thread has finished and they're *all* running straight for 5 consecutive seconds. If 50 kmod threads are running consecutively for 5 seconds something else must be really bad. Recursive loops with kmod are bad but they're also hard to implement properly as a selftest without currently fooling current userspace tools like kmod [1]. For instance kmod will complain when you run depmod if it finds a recursive loop with symbol dependency between modules as such this type of recursive loop cannot go upstream as the modules_install target will fail after running depmod. These tests already exist on userspace kmod upstream though (refer to the testsuite/module-playground/mod-loop-*.c files). The same is not true if request_module() is used though, or worst if aliases are used. Likewise the issue with 64-bit kernels booting 32-bit userspace without a binfmt handler built-in is also currently not detected and proactively avoided by userspace kmod tools, or kconfig for all architectures. Although we could complain in the kernel when some of these individual recursive issues creep up, proactively avoiding these situations in userspace at build time is what we should keep striving for. Lastly, since recursive loops could happen with kmod it may mean recursive loops may also be possible with other kernel usermode helpers, this should be investigated and long term if we can come up with a more sensible generic solution even better! [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=20170809-kmod-for-v4.13-final [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git This patch (of 3): This wait is similar to wait_event_interruptible_timeout() but only accepts SIGKILL interrupt signal. Other signals are ignored. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809234635.13443-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgetc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/wait.h37
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diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 5b74e36c0ca8..dc19880c02f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -757,6 +757,43 @@ extern int do_wait_intr_irq(wait_queue_head_t *, wait_queue_entry_t *);
__ret; \
})
+#define __wait_event_killable_timeout(wq_head, condition, timeout) \
+ ___wait_event(wq_head, ___wait_cond_timeout(condition), \
+ TASK_KILLABLE, 0, timeout, \
+ __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret))
+
+/**
+ * wait_event_killable_timeout - sleep until a condition gets true or a timeout elapses
+ * @wq_head: the waitqueue to wait on
+ * @condition: a C expression for the event to wait for
+ * @timeout: timeout, in jiffies
+ *
+ * The process is put to sleep (TASK_KILLABLE) until the
+ * @condition evaluates to true or a kill signal is received.
+ * The @condition is checked each time the waitqueue @wq_head is woken up.
+ *
+ * wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
+ * change the result of the wait condition.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 if the @condition evaluated to %false after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * 1 if the @condition evaluated to %true after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated
+ * to %true before the @timeout elapsed, or -%ERESTARTSYS if it was
+ * interrupted by a kill signal.
+ *
+ * Only kill signals interrupt this process.
+ */
+#define wait_event_killable_timeout(wq_head, condition, timeout) \
+({ \
+ long __ret = timeout; \
+ might_sleep(); \
+ if (!___wait_cond_timeout(condition)) \
+ __ret = __wait_event_killable_timeout(wq_head, \
+ condition, timeout); \
+ __ret; \
+})
+
#define __wait_event_lock_irq(wq_head, condition, lock, cmd) \
(void)___wait_event(wq_head, condition, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, 0, 0, \