Yonghong Song says:
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Commit
8b401f9ed244 ("bpf: implement bpf_send_signal() helper")
introduced bpf_send_signal() helper and Commit
8482941f0906
("bpf: Add bpf_send_signal_thread() helper") added bpf_send_signal_thread()
helper. Both helpers try to send a signel to current process or thread.
When bpf_prog is called with scheduler rq_lock held, a deadlock
could happen since bpf_send_signal() and bpf_send_signal_thread()
will call group_send_sig_info() which may ultimately want to acquire
rq_lock() again. This happens in 5.2 and 4.16 based kernels in our
production environment with perf_sw_event.
In a different scenario, the following is also possible in the last kernel:
cpu 1:
do_task_stat <- holding sighand->siglock
...
task_sched_runtime <- trying to grab rq_lock
cpu 2:
__schedule <- holding rq_lock
...
do_send_sig_info <- trying to grab sighand->siglock
Commit
eac9153f2b58 ("bpf/stackmap: Fix deadlock with
rq_lock in bpf_get_stack()") has a similar issue with above
rq_lock() deadlock. This patch set addressed the issue
in a similar way. Patch #1 provided kernel solution and
Patch #2 added a selftest.
Changelogs:
v2 -> v3:
. simplify selftest send_signal_sched_switch().
The previous version has mmap/munmap inherited
from Song's reproducer. They are not necessary
in this context.
v1 -> v2:
. previous fix using task_work in nmi() is incorrect.
there is no nmi() involvement here. Using task_work
in all cases might be a solution. But decided to
use a similar fix as in Commit
eac9153f2b58.
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>