When unregistered my self-written scx scheduler, the following panic
occurs.
[ 229.923133] Kernel text patching generated an invalid instruction at 0xffff80009bc2c1f8!
[ 229.923146] Internal error: Oops - BRK:
00000000f2000100 [#1] SMP
[ 230.077871] CPU: 48 UID: 0 PID: 1760 Comm: kworker/u583:7 Not tainted 7.0.0+ #3 PREEMPT(full)
[ 230.086677] Hardware name: NVIDIA GB200 NVL/P3809-BMC, BIOS 02.05.12
20251107
[ 230.093972] Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred
[ 230.099675] Sched_ext: invariant_0.1.0_aarch64_unknown_linux_gnu_debug (disabling), task: runnable_at=-174ms
[ 230.116843] pc : 0xffff80009bc2c1f8
[ 230.120406] lr : dequeue_task_scx+0x270/0x2d0
[ 230.217749] Call trace:
[ 230.228515] 0xffff80009bc2c1f8 (P)
[ 230.232077] dequeue_task+0x84/0x188
[ 230.235728] sched_change_begin+0x1dc/0x250
[ 230.240000] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked+0x17c/0x240
[ 230.245250] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x74/0xf0
[ 230.249701] ___migrate_enable+0x4c/0xa0
[ 230.253707] bpf_map_free_deferred+0x1a4/0x1b0
[ 230.258246] process_one_work+0x184/0x540
[ 230.262342] worker_thread+0x19c/0x348
[ 230.266170] kthread+0x13c/0x150
[ 230.269465] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 230.281393] Code:
d4202000 d4202000 d4202000 d4202000 (
d4202000)
[ 230.287621] ---[ end trace
0000000000000000 ]---
[ 231.160046] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BRK: Fatal exception in interrupt
The root cause is that the JIT page backing ops->quiescent() is freed
before all callers of that function have stopped.
The expected ordering during teardown is:
bitmap_zero(sch->has_op) + synchronize_rcu()
-> guarantees no CPU will ever call sch->ops.* again
-> only THEN free the BPF struct_ops JIT page
bpf_scx_unreg() is supposed to enforce the order, but after
commit
f4a6c506d118 ("sched_ext: Always bounce scx_disable() through
irq_work"), disable_work is no longer queued directly, causing
kthread_flush_work() to be a noop. Thus, the caller drops the struct_ops
map too early and poisoned with AARCH64_BREAK_FAULT before
disable_workfn ever execute.
So the subsequent dequeue_task() still sees SCX_HAS_OP(sch, quiescent)
as true and calls ops.quiescent, which hit on the poisoned page and BRK
panic.
Add a helper scx_flush_disable_work() so the future use cases that want
to flush disable_work can use it.
Also amend the call for scx_root_enable_workfn() and
scx_sub_enable_workfn() which have similar pattern in the error path.
Fixes: f4a6c506d118 ("sched_ext: Always bounce scx_disable() through irq_work")
Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
irq_work_queue(&sch->disable_irq_work);
}
+/**
+ * scx_flush_disable_work - flush the disable work and wait for it to finish
+ * @sch: the scheduler
+ *
+ * sch->disable_work might still not queued, causing kthread_flush_work()
+ * as a noop. Syncing the irq_work first is required to guarantee the
+ * kthread work has been queued before waiting for it.
+ */
+static void scx_flush_disable_work(struct scx_sched *sch)
+{
+ irq_work_sync(&sch->disable_irq_work);
+ kthread_flush_work(&sch->disable_work);
+}
+
static void dump_newline(struct seq_buf *s)
{
trace_sched_ext_dump("");
* completion. sch's base reference will be put by bpf_scx_unreg().
*/
scx_error(sch, "scx_root_enable() failed (%d)", ret);
- kthread_flush_work(&sch->disable_work);
+ scx_flush_disable_work(sch);
cmd->ret = 0;
}
percpu_up_write(&scx_fork_rwsem);
err_disable:
mutex_unlock(&scx_enable_mutex);
- kthread_flush_work(&sch->disable_work);
+ scx_flush_disable_work(sch);
cmd->ret = 0;
}
struct scx_sched *sch = rcu_dereference_protected(ops->priv, true);
scx_disable(sch, SCX_EXIT_UNREG);
- kthread_flush_work(&sch->disable_work);
+ scx_flush_disable_work(sch);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(ops->priv, NULL);
kobject_put(&sch->kobj);
}