From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:46:50 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix: defer_rcu: futex wait: handle spurious futex wakeups
X-Git-Tag: v0.12.4~14
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=feb9779741e503a39fadc838d1b26984bfd51f7e;p=userspace-rcu.git

Fix: defer_rcu: futex wait: handle spurious futex wakeups

Observed issue
==============

The urcu-defer wait_defer() implements a futex wait/wakeup scheme identical to
the workqueue code, which has an issue with spurious wakeups.

A spurious wakeup on wait_defer can cause wait_defer to return with a
defer_thread_futex state of -1, which is unexpected. It would cause the
following loops in thr_defer() to decrement the defer_thread_futex to
values below -1, thus actively using CPU as values will be decremented
to very low negative values until it reaches 0 through underflow, or
until callbacks are eventually queued. The state is restored to 0 when
callbacks are found, which restores the futex state to a correct state
for the following calls to wait_defer().

This issue will cause spurious unexpected high CPU use, but will not
lead to data corruption.

Cause
=====

From futex(5):

       FUTEX_WAIT
              Returns 0 if the caller was woken up.  Note that a  wake-up  can
              also  be caused by common futex usage patterns in unrelated code
              that happened to have previously used the  futex  word's  memory
              location  (e.g., typical futex-based implementations of Pthreads
              mutexes can cause this under some conditions).  Therefore, call‐
              ers should always conservatively assume that a return value of 0
              can mean a spurious wake-up, and  use  the  futex  word's  value
              (i.e.,  the user-space synchronization scheme) to decide whether
              to continue to block or not.

Solution
========

We therefore need to validate whether the value differs from -1 in
user-space after the call to FUTEX_WAIT returns 0.

Known drawbacks
===============

None.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Change-Id: Id9c104c0bb77cc306f0b8fbf0b924bdda2aaaf4c
---

diff --git a/src/urcu-defer-impl.h b/src/urcu-defer-impl.h
index 969231f..f1fae9c 100644
--- a/src/urcu-defer-impl.h
+++ b/src/urcu-defer-impl.h
@@ -194,17 +194,25 @@ static void wait_defer(void)
 		uatomic_set(&defer_thread_futex, 0);
 	} else {
 		cmm_smp_rmb();	/* Read queue before read futex */
-		if (uatomic_read(&defer_thread_futex) != -1)
-			return;
-		while (futex_noasync(&defer_thread_futex, FUTEX_WAIT, -1,
-				NULL, NULL, 0)) {
+		while (uatomic_read(&defer_thread_futex) == -1) {
+			if (!futex_noasync(&defer_thread_futex, FUTEX_WAIT, -1, NULL, NULL, 0)) {
+				/*
+				 * Prior queued wakeups queued by unrelated code
+				 * using the same address can cause futex wait to
+				 * return 0 even through the futex value is still
+				 * -1 (spurious wakeups). Check the value again
+				 * in user-space to validate whether it really
+				 * differs from -1.
+				 */
+				continue;
+			}
 			switch (errno) {
-			case EWOULDBLOCK:
+			case EAGAIN:
 				/* Value already changed. */
 				return;
 			case EINTR:
 				/* Retry if interrupted by signal. */
-				break;	/* Get out of switch. */
+				break;	/* Get out of switch. Check again. */
 			default:
 				/* Unexpected error. */
 				urcu_die(errno);