crash on s390 with SCHED_CORE=y

From: Sven Schnelle
Date: Thu Aug 26 2021 - 05:06:51 EST


Hi Peter,

i'm seeing the following crash on s390 with the strace testsuite (namely
the prctl-sched-core--pidns-translation testcase).

[ 25.044039] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
[ 25.044051] Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000483
[ 25.044053] Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
[ 25.044056] AS:0000000166bd4007 R3:00000003fffe8007 S:00000003fffed800 P:000000000000003d
[ 25.044080] Oops: 0004 ilc:2 [#1] SMP
[ 25.044085] Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nf_tables nfnetlink sunrpc dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua s390_trng ghash_s390 ism p
rng smc aes_s390 des_s390 libdes ib_core sha3_512_s390 sha3_256_s390 sha512_s390 sha256_s390 sha1_s390 sha_common eadm_sch vfio_ccw mdev vfio_iommu_type1 vfio sch_fq_codel pkey zcrypt rng_core configfs ip_tables x_tables autofs4
[ 25.044125] CPU: 122 PID: 2045 Comm: prctl-sched-cor Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-08025-gf6d7568b37df-dirty #532
[ 25.044129] Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 701 (LPAR)
[ 25.044130] Krnl PSW : 0404e00180000000 00000001655b7534 (raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x5c/0xb8)
[ 25.044142] R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
[ 25.044145] Krnl GPRS: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 000000030000007b 0000000000000000
[ 25.044147] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000100000080 0000000166ad0900
[ 25.044149] 0000000000000400 0000000100000000 0000000000000000 00000003fd9a3600
[ 25.044150] 000000009fb50000 0000000166172538 00000380077cbd00 00000380077cbcc0
[ 25.044158] Krnl Code: 00000001655b752a: b90400ab lgr %r10,%r11
[ 25.044158] 00000001655b752e: 582003ac l %r2,940
[ 25.044158] #00000001655b7532: 1819 lr %r1,%r9
[ 25.044158] >00000001655b7534: ba12a000 cs %r1,%r2,0(%r10)
[ 25.044158] 00000001655b7538: ec16001d007e cij %r1,0,6,00000001655b7572
[ 25.044158] 00000001655b753e: e310b1300112 lt %r1,4400(%r11)
[ 25.044158] 00000001655b7544: a7740012 brc 7,00000001655b7568
[ 25.044158] 00000001655b7548: b904001b lgr %r1,%r11
[ 25.044230] Call Trace:
[ 25.044234] [<00000001655b7534>] raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x5c/0xb8
[ 25.044241] [<00000001655d2cfc>] online_fair_sched_group+0x9c/0x1c0
[ 25.044248] [<00000001655e481c>] sched_autogroup_create_attach+0xdc/0x210
[ 25.044253] [<000000016559a45e>] ksys_setsid+0x10e/0x148
[ 25.044258] [<000000016559a4ba>] __s390_sys_setsid+0x22/0x30
[ 25.044261] [<000000016608402c>] __do_syscall+0x1bc/0x1e8
[ 25.044266] [<0000000166091358>] system_call+0x78/0xa0
[ 25.044269] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[ 25.044270] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[ 25.044274] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

The crash is caused by using a NULL rq->core value in
__rq_lockp, which is then passed on to raw_spin_rq_lock_nested(). This
is because it is implemented as follows:

static inline raw_spinlock_t *__rq_lockp(struct rq *rq)
{
if (rq->core_enabled)
return &rq->core->__lock;
return &rq->__lock;
}

The problem is, that __sched_core_flip() sets rq->core_enabled to 1 even
for offline CPUS:

/*
* Toggle the offline CPUs.
*/
cpumask_copy(&sched_core_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
cpumask_andnot(&sched_core_mask, &sched_core_mask, cpu_online_mask);

for_each_cpu(cpu, &sched_core_mask)
cpu_rq(cpu)->core_enabled = enabled;

... But rq->core seems to get only assigned in the cpu hotplug notifer
sched_core_cpu_starting(), which is never called for offline CPUs. At
least i haven't found another place which assigns rq->core.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Svem