[bpf,v2,1/2] bpf: Wait for busy refill_work when destroying bpf memory allocator

Commit Message

Hou Tao Oct. 21, 2022, 11:49 a.m. UTC

From: Hou Tao <[e-mail]>

A busy irq work is an unfinished irq work and it can be either in the
pending state or in the running state. When destroying bpf memory
allocator, refill_work may be busy for PREEMPT_RT kernel in which irq
work is invoked in a per-CPU RT-kthread. It is also possible for kernel
with arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() being false (e.g. 1-cpu arm32 host or
mips) and irq work is inovked in timer interrupt.

The busy refill_work leads to various issues. The obvious one is that
there will be concurrent operations on free_by_rcu and free_list between
irq work and memory draining. Another one is call_rcu_in_progress will
not be reliable for the checking of pending RCU callback because
do_call_rcu() may have not been invoked by irq work yet. The other is
there will be use-after-free if irq work is freed before the callback
of irq work is invoked as shown below:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
 PGD 12ab94067 P4D 12ab94067 PUD 1796b4067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP
 CPU: 5 PID: 64 Comm: irq_work/5 Not tainted 6.0.0-rt11+ #1
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
 RIP: 0010:0x0
 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
 RSP: 0018:ffffadc080293e78 EFLAGS: 00010286
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffcdc07fb6a388 RCX: ffffa05000a2e000
 RDX: ffffa05000a2e000 RSI: ffffffff96cc9827 RDI: ffffcdc07fb6a388
 ......
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  irq_work_single+0x24/0x60
  irq_work_run_list+0x24/0x30
  run_irq_workd+0x23/0x30
  smpboot_thread_fn+0x203/0x300
  kthread+0x126/0x150
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
  </TASK>

Considering the ease of concurrency handling, no overhead for
irq_work_sync() under non-PREEMPT_RT kernel and has-irq-work-interrupt
kernel and the short wait time used for irq_work_sync() under PREEMPT_RT
(When running two test_maps on PREEMPT_RT kernel and 72-cpus host, the
max wait time is about 8ms and the 99th percentile is 10us), just using
irq_work_sync() to wait for busy refill_work to complete before memory
draining and memory freeing.

Fixes: 7c8199e24fa0 ("bpf: Introduce any context BPF specific memory allocator.")
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <[e-mail]>
---
 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
index 2433be58bb85..4e4b3250aada 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -498,6 +498,16 @@  void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma)
 		rcu_in_progress = 0;
 		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 			c = per_cpu_ptr(ma->cache, cpu);
+			/*
+			 * refill_work may be unfinished for PREEMPT_RT kernel
+			 * in which irq work is invoked in a per-CPU RT thread.
+			 * It is also possible for kernel with
+			 * arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() being false and irq
+			 * work is invoked in timer interrupt. So waiting for
+			 * the completion of irq work to ease the handling of
+			 * concurrency.
+			 */
+			irq_work_sync(&c->refill_work);
 			drain_mem_cache(c);
 			rcu_in_progress += atomic_read(&c->call_rcu_in_progress);
 		}
@@ -512,6 +522,7 @@  void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma)
 			cc = per_cpu_ptr(ma->caches, cpu);
 			for (i = 0; i < NUM_CACHES; i++) {
 				c = &cc->cache[i];
+				irq_work_sync(&c->refill_work);
 				drain_mem_cache(c);
 				rcu_in_progress += atomic_read(&c->call_rcu_in_progress);
 			}