eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit

The recursion protection for eventfd_signal() is based on a per CPU
variable and relies on the !RT semantics of spin_lock_irqsave() for
protecting this per CPU variable. On RT kernels spin_lock_irqsave() neither
disables preemption nor interrupts which allows the spin lock held section
to be preempted. If the preempting task invokes eventfd_signal() as well,
then the recursion warning triggers.

Paolo suggested to protect the per CPU variable with a local lock, but
that's heavyweight and actually not necessary. The goal of this protection
is to prevent the task stack from overflowing, which can be achieved with a
per task recursion protection as well.

Replace the per CPU variable with a per task bit similar to other recursion
protection bits like task_struct::in_page_owner. This works on both !RT and
RT kernels and removes as a side effect the extra per CPU storage.

No functional change for !RT kernels.

Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnp9idso.ffs@tglx

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
index e265b6dd4f34..3627dd7d25db 100644
--- a/fs/eventfd.c
+++ b/fs/eventfd.c
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, eventfd_wake_count);
-
 static DEFINE_IDA(eventfd_ida);
 
 struct eventfd_ctx {
@@ -67,21 +65,21 @@ __u64 eventfd_signal(struct eventfd_ctx *ctx, __u64 n)
 	 * Deadlock or stack overflow issues can happen if we recurse here
 	 * through waitqueue wakeup handlers. If the caller users potentially
 	 * nested waitqueues with custom wakeup handlers, then it should
-	 * check eventfd_signal_count() before calling this function. If
-	 * it returns true, the eventfd_signal() call should be deferred to a
+	 * check eventfd_signal_allowed() before calling this function. If
+	 * it returns false, the eventfd_signal() call should be deferred to a
 	 * safe context.
 	 */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(this_cpu_read(eventfd_wake_count)))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->in_eventfd_signal))
 		return 0;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
-	this_cpu_inc(eventfd_wake_count);
+	current->in_eventfd_signal = 1;
 	if (ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count < n)
 		n = ULLONG_MAX - ctx->count;
 	ctx->count += n;
 	if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->wqh))
 		wake_up_locked_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLIN);
-	this_cpu_dec(eventfd_wake_count);
+	current->in_eventfd_signal = 0;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
 
 	return n;