rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes()

RCU Tasks and PID-namespace unshare can interact in do_exit() in a
complicated circular dependency:

1) TASK A calls unshare(CLONE_NEWPID), this creates a new PID namespace
   that every subsequent child of TASK A will belong to. But TASK A
   doesn't itself belong to that new PID namespace.

2) TASK A forks() and creates TASK B. TASK A stays attached to its PID
   namespace (let's say PID_NS1) and TASK B is the first task belonging
   to the new PID namespace created by unshare()  (let's call it PID_NS2).

3) Since TASK B is the first task attached to PID_NS2, it becomes the
   PID_NS2 child reaper.

4) TASK A forks() again and creates TASK C which get attached to PID_NS2.
   Note how TASK C has TASK A as a parent (belonging to PID_NS1) but has
   TASK B (belonging to PID_NS2) as a pid_namespace child_reaper.

5) TASK B exits and since it is the child reaper for PID_NS2, it has to
   kill all other tasks attached to PID_NS2, and wait for all of them to
   die before getting reaped itself (zap_pid_ns_process()).

6) TASK A calls synchronize_rcu_tasks() which leads to
   synchronize_srcu(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu).

7) TASK B is waiting for TASK C to get reaped. But TASK B is under a
   tasks_rcu_exit_srcu SRCU critical section (exit_notify() is between
   exit_tasks_rcu_start() and exit_tasks_rcu_finish()), blocking TASK A.

8) TASK C exits and since TASK A is its parent, it waits for it to reap
   TASK C, but it can't because TASK A waits for TASK B that waits for
   TASK C.

Pid_namespace semantics can hardly be changed at this point. But the
coverage of tasks_rcu_exit_srcu can be reduced instead.

The current task is assumed not to be concurrently reapable at this
stage of exit_notify() and therefore tasks_rcu_exit_srcu can be
temporarily relaxed without breaking its constraints, providing a way
out of the deadlock scenario.

[ paulmck: Fix build failure by adding additional declaration. ]

Fixes: 3f95aa81d265 ("rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle tasks that are almost done exiting")
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W . Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 03abf883a281..c0c79beac3fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ void synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(void);
 
 #define rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch(t) rcu_tasks_qs(t, false)
 void exit_tasks_rcu_start(void);
+void exit_tasks_rcu_stop(void);
 void exit_tasks_rcu_finish(void);
 #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC */
 #define rcu_tasks_classic_qs(t, preempt) do { } while (0)
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ void exit_tasks_rcu_finish(void);
 #define call_rcu_tasks call_rcu
 #define synchronize_rcu_tasks synchronize_rcu
 static inline void exit_tasks_rcu_start(void) { }
+static inline void exit_tasks_rcu_stop(void) { }
 static inline void exit_tasks_rcu_finish(void) { }
 #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC */