The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

Possible dependencies:

d125d1349abe ("alarmtimer: Prevent starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN") 41b3b8dffc1f ("alarmtimer: Rename gettime() callback to get_ktime()")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d125d1349abeb46945dc5e98f7824bf688266f13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 23:25:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] alarmtimer: Prevent starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN

syzbot reported a RCU stall which is caused by setting up an alarmtimer with a very small interval and ignoring the signal. The reproducer arms the alarm timer with a relative expiry of 8ns and an interval of 9ns. Not a problem per se, but that's an issue when the signal is ignored because then the timer is immediately rearmed because there is no way to delay that rearming to the signal delivery path. See posix_timer_fn() and commit 58229a189942 ("posix-timers: Prevent softirq starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN") for details.

The reproducer does not set SIG_IGN explicitely, but it sets up the timers signal with SIGCONT. That has the same effect as explicitely setting SIG_IGN for a signal as SIGCONT is ignored if there is no handler set and the task is not ptraced.

The log clearly shows that:

[pid 5102] --- SIGCONT {si_signo=SIGCONT, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_timerid=0, si_overrun=316014, si_int=0, si_ptr=NULL} ---

It works because the tasks are traced and therefore the signal is queued so the tracer can see it, which delays the restart of the timer to the signal delivery path. But then the tracer is killed:

[pid 5087] kill(-5102, SIGKILL <unfinished ...> ... ./strace-static-x86_64: Process 5107 detached

and after it's gone the stall can be observed:

syzkaller login: [ 79.439102][ C0] hrtimer: interrupt took 68471 ns [ 184.460538][ C1] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: ... [ 184.658237][ C1] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran: [ 184.664574][ C1] Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0: [ 184.669821][ C0] NMI backtrace for cpu 0 [ 184.669831][ C0] CPU: 0 PID: 5108 Comm: syz-executor192 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-next-20230203-syzkaller #0 ... [ 184.670036][ C0] Call Trace: [ 184.670041][ C0] <IRQ> [ 184.670045][ C0] alarmtimer_fired+0x327/0x670

posix_timer_fn() prevents that by checking whether the interval for timers which have the signal ignored is smaller than a jiffie and artifically delay it by shifting the next expiry out by a jiffie. That's accurate vs. the overrun accounting, but slightly inaccurate vs. timer_gettimer(2).

The comment in that function says what needs to be done and there was a fix available for the regular userspace induced SIG_IGN mechanism, but that did not work due to the implicit ignore for SIGCONT and similar signals. This needs to be worked on, but for now the only available workaround is to do exactly what posix_timer_fn() does:

Increase the interval of self-rearming timers, which have their signal ignored, to at least a jiffie.

Interestingly this has been fixed before via commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") already, but that fix got lost in a later rework.

Reported-by: syzbot+b9564ba6e8e00694511b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: f2c45807d399 ("alarmtimer: Switch over to generic set/get/rearm routine") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Acked-by: John Stultz jstultz@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k00q1no2.ffs@tglx

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c index 5897828b9d7e..7e5dff602585 100644 --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -470,11 +470,35 @@ u64 alarm_forward(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_forward);

-u64 alarm_forward_now(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t interval) +static u64 __alarm_forward_now(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t interval, bool throttle) { struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type]; + ktime_t now = base->get_ktime(); + + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS) && throttle) { + /* + * Same issue as with posix_timer_fn(). Timers which are + * periodic but the signal is ignored can starve the system + * with a very small interval. The real fix which was + * promised in the context of posix_timer_fn() never + * materialized, but someone should really work on it. + * + * To prevent DOS fake @now to be 1 jiffie out which keeps + * the overrun accounting correct but creates an + * inconsistency vs. timer_gettime(2). + */ + ktime_t kj = NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ; + + if (interval < kj) + now = ktime_add(now, kj); + } + + return alarm_forward(alarm, now, interval); +}

- return alarm_forward(alarm, base->get_ktime(), interval); +u64 alarm_forward_now(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t interval) +{ + return __alarm_forward_now(alarm, interval, false); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_forward_now);

@@ -551,9 +575,10 @@ static enum alarmtimer_restart alarm_handle_timer(struct alarm *alarm, if (posix_timer_event(ptr, si_private) && ptr->it_interval) { /* * Handle ignored signals and rearm the timer. This will go - * away once we handle ignored signals proper. + * away once we handle ignored signals proper. Ensure that + * small intervals cannot starve the system. */ - ptr->it_overrun += alarm_forward_now(alarm, ptr->it_interval); + ptr->it_overrun += __alarm_forward_now(alarm, ptr->it_interval, true); ++ptr->it_requeue_pending; ptr->it_active = 1; result = ALARMTIMER_RESTART;