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kthread: Move prio/affinite change into the newly created thread
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With enabled threaded interrupts the nouveau driver reported the
following:
| Chain exists of:
|   &mm->mmap_lock#2 --> &device->mutex --> &cpuset_rwsem
|
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|        CPU0                    CPU1
|        ----                    ----
|   lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|                                lock(&device->mutex);
|                                lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|   lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2);

The device->mutex is nvkm_device::mutex.

Unblocking the lockchain at `cpuset_rwsem' is probably the easiest thing
to do.
Move the priority reset to the start of the newly created thread.

Fixes: 710da3c ("sched/core: Prevent race condition between cpuset and __sched_setscheduler()")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a23a826af7c108ea5651e73b8fbae5e653f16e86.camel@gmx.de
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior committed Sep 13, 2021
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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions kernel/kthread.c
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Expand Up @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);

static int kthread(void *_create)
{
static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
int (*threadfn)(void *data) = create->threadfn;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -300,6 +301,13 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
init_completion(&self->parked);
current->vfork_done = &self->exited;

/*
* The new thread inherited kthreadd's priority and CPU mask. Reset
* back to default in case they have been changed.
*/
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));

/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
create->result = current;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -397,7 +405,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
}
task = create->result;
if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
char name[TASK_COMM_LEN];

/*
Expand All @@ -406,13 +413,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
*/
vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
set_task_comm(task, name);
/*
* root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
* The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
*/
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task,
housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));
}
kfree(create);
return task;
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