Subject: [PATCH] kthread: Move prio/affinite change into the newly created thread
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:38:47 +0100

With enabled threaded interrupts the nouveau driver reported the
following:

| Chain exists of:
|   &mm->mmap_lock#2 --> &device->mutex --> &cpuset_rwsem
|
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|        CPU0                    CPU1
|        ----                    ----
|   lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|                                lock(&device->mutex);
|                                lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|   lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2);

The device->mutex is nvkm_device::mutex.

Unblocking the lockchain at `cpuset_rwsem' is probably the easiest
thing to do.  Move the priority reset to the start of the newly
created thread.

Fixes: 710da3c8ea7df ("sched/core: Prevent race condition between cpuset and __sched_setscheduler()")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email-masked]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
---
 kernel/kthread.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);
 
 static int kthread(void *_create)
 {
+	static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
 	/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
 	struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
 	int (*threadfn)(void *data) = create->threadfn;
@@ -300,6 +301,13 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 	init_completion(&self->parked);
 	current->vfork_done = &self->exited;
 
+	/*
+	 * The new thread inherited kthreadd's priority and CPU mask. Reset
+	 * back to default in case they have been changed.
+	 */
+	sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
+	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));
+
 	/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
 	__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	create->result = current;
@@ -397,7 +405,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_
 	}
 	task = create->result;
 	if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
-		static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
 		char name[TASK_COMM_LEN];
 
 		/*
@@ -406,13 +413,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_
 		 */
 		vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
 		set_task_comm(task, name);
-		/*
-		 * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
-		 * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
-		 */
-		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
-		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task,
-				     housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));
 	}
 	kfree(create);
 	return task;