Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Futex updates:
- Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns (Peter Zijlstra)
- Large series to address the robust futex unlock race for real, by
Thomas Gleixner:
"The robust futex unlock mechanism is racy in respect to the
clearing of the robust_list_head::list_op_pending pointer because
unlock and clearing the pointer are not atomic.
The race window is between the unlock and clearing the pending op
pointer. If the task is forced to exit in this window, exit will
access a potentially invalid pending op pointer when cleaning up
the robust list.
That happens if another task manages to unmap the object
containing the lock before the cleanup, which results in an UAF.
In the worst case this UAF can lead to memory corruption when
unrelated content has been mapped to the same address by the time
the access happens.
User space can't solve this problem without help from the kernel.
This series provides the kernel side infrastructure to help it
along:
1) Combined unlock, pointer clearing, wake-up for the
contended case
2) VDSO based unlock and pointer clearing helpers with a
fix-up function in the kernel when user space was interrupted
within the critical section.
... with help by André Almeida:
- Add a note about robust list race condition (André Almeida)
- Add self-tests for robust release operations (André Almeida)
Context analysis updates:
- Implement context analysis for 'struct rt_mutex'. (Bart Van Assche)
- Bump required Clang version to 23 (Marco Elver)
Guard infrastructure updates:
- Series to remove NULL check from unconditional guards (Dmitry
Ilvokhin)
Lockdep updates:
- Restore self-test migrate_disable() and sched_rt_mutex state on
PREEMPT_RT (Karl Mehltretter)
Membarriers updates:
- Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands (Aniket Gattani)
- Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards (Aniket
Gattani)
- Add rseq stress test for CFS throttle interactions (Aniket Gattani)
percpu-rwsems updates:
- Extract __percpu_up_read() to optimize inlining overhead (Dmitry
Ilvokhin)
Seqlocks updates:
- Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing (Heiko Carstens)
Lock tracing:
- Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks such as
mutexes, percpu-rwsems, rtmutexes, rwsems and semaphores (Dmitry
Ilvokhin)
MAINTAINERS updates:
- MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry (Boqun Feng)
Misc updates and fixes by Randy Dunlap, YE WEI-HONG, Fabricio Parra,
Dmitry Ilvokhin and Peter Zijlstra"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
locking/percpu-rwsem: Extract __percpu_up_read()
tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
futex: Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns
rust: sync: completion: Mark inline complete_all and wait_for_completion
MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry
cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index
selftests: futex: Add tests for robust release operations
Documentation: futex: Add a note about robust list race condition
x86/vdso: Implement __vdso_futex_robust_try_unlock()
x86/vdso: Prepare for robust futex unlock support
futex: Provide infrastructure to plug the non contended robust futex unlock race
futex: Add robust futex unlock IP range
futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes
futex: Cleanup UAPI defines
x86: Select ARCH_MEMORY_ORDER_TSO
uaccess: Provide unsafe_atomic_store_release_user()
futex: Provide UABI defines for robust list entry modifiers
futex: Move futex related mm_struct data into a struct
futex: Make futex_mm_init() void
...
syzbot triggered the following splat in remove_waiter() via
FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f]
class_raw_spinlock_constructor
remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561
rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120
futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0
__x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() does not arm the waiter upon deadlock detection,
leaving waiter->task nil, where 3bfdc63936 ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead
of current in remove_waiter()") made this fatal.
Furthermore, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() should not be calling into remove_waiter()
upon a successfully grabbing the rtmutex. 1a1fb985f2 ("futex: Handle early deadlock
return correctly"), moved the remove_waiter() out of __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
(where 'ret' was only ever 0 or < 0) into the wrapper. Tighten this check to
account for try_to_take_rt_mutex().
Fixes: 3bfdc63936 ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()")
Reported-by: syzbot+78147abe6c524f183ee9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69f114ac.050a0220.ac8b.0003.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507112913.1019537-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Enable context analysis for struct rt_mutex and annotate all functions that
accept a struct rt_mutex pointer. In the __rt_mutex_lock_common() callers,
instead of adding the __no_context_analysis annotation, emit a runtime
warning if the __rt_mutex_lock_common() return value is not zero and add an
__acquire() statement.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508174520.1416285-1-bvanassche@acm.org
mutex_init() invokes __mutex_init() providing the name of the lock and
a pointer to a the lock class. With LOCKDEP enabled this information is
useful but without LOCKDEP it not used at all. Passing the pointer
information of the lock class might be considered negligible but the
name of the lock is passed as well and the string is stored. This
information is wasting storage.
Split __mutex_init() into a _genereic() variant doing the initialisation
of the lock and a _lockdep() version which does _genereic() plus the
lockdep bits. Restrict the lockdep version to lockdep enabled builds
allowing the compiler to remove the unused parameter.
This results in the following size reduction:
text data bss dec filename
| 30237599 8161430 1176624 39575653 vmlinux.defconfig
| 30233269 8149142 1176560 39558971 vmlinux.defconfig.patched
-4.2KiB -12KiB
| 32455099 8471098 12934684 53860881 vmlinux.defconfig.lockdep
| 32455100 8471098 12934684 53860882 vmlinux.defconfig.patched.lockdep
| 27152407 7191822 2068040 36412269 vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt
| 27145937 7183630 2067976 36397543 vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt
-6.3KiB -8KiB
| 29382020 7505742 13784608 50672370 vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt.lockdep
| 29376229 7505742 13784544 50666515 vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt.lockdep
-5.6KiB
[peterz: folded fix from boqun]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125145425.68319-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105142350.Tfeevs2N@linutronix.de
Move the max_lock_depth sysctl table element into rtmutex_api.c. Removed
the rtmutex.h include from sysctl.c. Chose to move into rtmutex_api.c
to avoid multiple registrations every time rtmutex.c is included in other
files.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Commit fb49f07ba1 ("locking/mutex: implement mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock")
changed the set of functions that mutex.c defines when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
is set.
- it removed the "extern" declaration of mutex_lock_killable_nested from
include/linux/mutex.h, and replaced it with a macro since it could be
treated as a special case of _mutex_lock_killable. It also removed a
definition of the function in kernel/locking/mutex.c.
- likewise, it replaced mutex_trylock() with the more generic
mutex_trylock_nest_lock() and replaced mutex_trylock() with a macro.
However, it left the old definitions in place in kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c,
which causes failures when building with CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y. Bring over
the changes.
Fixes: fb49f07ba1 ("locking/mutex: implement mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Bert reported seeing occasional boot hangs when running with
PREEPT_RT and bisected it down to commit 894d1b3db4
("locking/mutex: Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock").
It looks like I missed a few spots where we drop the wait_lock and
potentially call into schedule without waking up the tasks on the
wake_q structure. Since the tasks being woken are ww_mutex tasks
they need to be able to run to release the mutex and unblock the
task that currently is planning to wake them. Thus we can deadlock.
So make sure we wake the wake_q tasks when we unlock the wait_lock.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241211182502.2915-1-spasswolf@web.de
Fixes: 894d1b3db4 ("locking/mutex: Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock")
Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241212222138.2400498-1-jstultz@google.com
Henry reported that rt_mutex_adjust_prio_check() has an ordering
problem and puts the lie to the comment in [7]. Sharing the sort key
between lock->waiters and owner->pi_waiters *does* create problems,
since unlike what the comment claims, holding [L] is insufficient.
Notably, consider:
A
/ \
M1 M2
| |
B C
That is, task A owns both M1 and M2, B and C block on them. In this
case a concurrent chain walk (B & C) will modify their resp. sort keys
in [7] while holding M1->wait_lock and M2->wait_lock. So holding [L]
is meaningless, they're different Ls.
This then gives rise to a race condition between [7] and [11], where
the requeue of pi_waiters will observe an inconsistent tree order.
B C
(holds M1->wait_lock, (holds M2->wait_lock,
holds B->pi_lock) holds A->pi_lock)
[7]
waiter_update_prio();
...
[8]
raw_spin_unlock(B->pi_lock);
...
[10]
raw_spin_lock(A->pi_lock);
[11]
rt_mutex_enqueue_pi();
// observes inconsistent A->pi_waiters
// tree order
Fixing this means either extending the range of the owner lock from
[10-13] to [6-13], with the immediate problem that this means [6-8]
hold both blocked and owner locks, or duplicating the sort key.
Since the locking in chain walk is horrible enough without having to
consider pi_lock nesting rules, duplicate the sort key instead.
By giving each tree their own sort key, the above race becomes
harmless, if C sees B at the old location, then B will correct things
(if they need correcting) when it walks up the chain and reaches A.
Fixes: fb00aca474 ("rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree")
Reported-by: Henry Wu <triangletrap12@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Henry Wu <triangletrap12@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707161052.GF2883469%40hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Jan Kara reported the following bug triggering on 6.0.5-rt14 running dbench
on XFS on arm64.
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:625!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP
CPU: 11 PID: 6611 Comm: dbench Tainted: G E 6.0.0-rt14-rt+ #1
pc : clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
lr : clear_inode+0x38/0xc0
Call trace:
clear_inode+0xa0/0xc0
evict+0x160/0x180
iput+0x154/0x240
do_unlinkat+0x184/0x300
__arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x48/0xc0
el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0xe4/0x2c0
do_el0_svc+0xac/0x100
el0_svc+0x78/0x200
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x9c/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
It also affects 6.1-rc7-rt5 and affects a preempt-rt fork of 5.14 so this
is likely a bug that existed forever and only became visible when ARM
support was added to preempt-rt. The same problem does not occur on x86-64
and he also reported that converting sb->s_inode_wblist_lock to
raw_spinlock_t makes the problem disappear indicating that the RT spinlock
variant is the problem.
Which in turn means that RT mutexes on ARM64 and any other weakly ordered
architecture are affected by this independent of RT.
Will Deacon observed:
"I'd be more inclined to be suspicious of the slowpath tbh, as we need to
make sure that we have acquire semantics on all paths where the lock can
be taken. Looking at the rtmutex code, this really isn't obvious to me
-- for example, try_to_take_rt_mutex() appears to be able to return via
the 'takeit' label without acquire semantics and it looks like we might
be relying on the caller's subsequent _unlock_ of the wait_lock for
ordering, but that will give us release semantics which aren't correct."
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior prototyped a fix that does work based on that
comment but it was a little bit overkill and added some fences that should
not be necessary.
The lock owner is updated with an IRQ-safe raw spinlock held, but the
spin_unlock does not provide acquire semantics which are needed when
acquiring a mutex.
Adds the necessary acquire semantics for lock owner updates in the slow path
acquisition and the waiter bit logic.
It successfully completed 10 iterations of the dbench workload while the
vanilla kernel fails on the first iteration.
[ bigeasy@linutronix.de: Initial prototype fix ]
Fixes: 700318d1d7 ("locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics")
Fixes: 23f78d4a03 ("[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core")
Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202100223.6mevpbl7i6x5udfd@techsingularity.net
The locking selftest for ww-mutex expects to operate directly on the
base-mutex which becomes a rtmutex on PREEMPT_RT.
Add a rtmutex based implementation of mutex_lock_nest_lock() and
mutex_lock_killable() named rt_mutex_lock_nest_lock() abd
rt_mutex_lock_killable().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129174654.668506-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
On PREEMPT_RT the futex hashbucket spinlock becomes 'sleeping' and rtmutex
based. That causes a lockdep false positive because some of the futex
functions invoke spin_unlock(&hb->lock) with the wait_lock of the rtmutex
associated to the pi_futex held. spin_unlock() in turn takes wait_lock of
the rtmutex on which the spinlock is based which makes lockdep notice a
lock recursion.
Give the futex/rtmutex wait_lock a separate key.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211305.750701219@linutronix.de
Guard the regular sleeping lock specific functionality, which is used for
rtmutex on non-RT enabled kernels and for mutex, rtmutex and semaphores on
RT enabled kernels so the code can be reused for the RT specific
implementation of spinlocks and rwlocks in a different compilation unit.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211303.311535693@linutronix.de
RT builds substitutions for rwsem, mutex, spinlock and rwlock around
rtmutexes. Split the inner working out so each lock substitution can use
them with the appropriate lockdep annotations. This avoids having an extra
unused lockdep map in the wrapped rtmutex.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.784739994@linutronix.de
Linus Torvalds
Davidlohr Bueso
Bart Van Assche
Peter Zijlstra
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Joel Granados
Paolo Bonzini
John Stultz
Mel Gorman
Thomas Gleixner