Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:49:50 -0700 | From | Chuck Anderson <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] audit: fix soft lockups due to loop in audit_log_start() wh,en audit_backlog_limit exceeded |
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audit: fix softlockups due to loop in audit_log_start() when audit_backlog_limit exceeded
author: Dan Duval <dan.duval@oracle.com>
This patch fixes a bug in kernel/audit that can cause many soft lockups and prevent the boot of a large memory 3.8 system:
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#66 stuck for 22s! [udevd:9559] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d1d06>] [<ffffffff810d1d06>] audit_log_start+0xe6/0x350 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8108ea30>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x2d0/0x2d0 [<ffffffff810d8d6f>] audit_log_exit+0x3f/0x590 [<ffffffff810d975d>] __audit_syscall_exit+0x28d/0x2c0 [<ffffffff815e0440>] sysret_audit+0x17/0x21
audit_log_start() will call wait_for_auditd() to delay returning an audit_buffer if there are too many SKBs on audit_skb_queue. wait_for_auditd() puts itself on the audit_backlog_wait queue and sleeps for sleep_time jiffies or until it is (normally) woken when kauditd takes an SKB off of audit_skb_queue. wait_for_auditd() returns to audit_log_start() which checks to see if audit_skb_queue still has too many SKBs. If there are still too many, audit_log_start() will continue to call wait_for_auditd() in a loop until audit_backlog_wait_time has passed. audit_log_start() will then complain ("backlog limit exceeded"); set audit_backlog_wait_time to NULL so other waiters will fall out of the loop when woken up; wake up any waiters in wait_for_auditd(); return NULL which tells the caller that an audit_buffer could not be allocated.
A bug in audit_log_start() prevents it from breaking out of the wait_for_auditd() loop when audit_backlog_wait_time has passed. Instead, it will loop in the audit_skb_queue-is-too-long while-loop eventually causing a soft lockup. There can (and most likely will) be multiple threads looping. The fix is to continue in the while-loop only if sleep_time was greater than 0 (audit_backlog_wait_time has not passed).
Another bug in audit_log_start() prevents audit_backlog_wait_time from working as expected. audit_backlog_wait_time is normally the time period that audit_log_start() will wait for the number of SKBs on audit_skb_queue to fall below the too-many threshold. If audit_backlog_wait_time passes, audit_log_start() will set it to audit_backlog_wait_overflow, which is zero, and wake up any waiters in wait_for_auditd(). audit_backlog_wait_time is now zero so the waiters will fall out of the loop when they return to audit_log_start(). That is expected behavior. But audit_backlog_wait_time is not reset to its initial value when audit_skb_queue's length is no longer too long. Subsequent calls to audit_log_start() when audit_skb_queue is too long will not wait in wait_for_auditd(), instead returning NULL. The fix is to set audit_backlog_wait_time to its initial value when audit_skb_queue passes the size test, potentially resetting it.
A third issue is to have both audit_log_start() and wait_for_auditd() use the same limit value for the length of audit_skb_queue. It isn't necessary today but (1) assumptions may change in the future and (2) is one less oddity for a reader to have to verify.
Signed-off-by: Dan Duval <dan.duval@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com> --- kernel/audit.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 91e53d0..9a78dde 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -103,9 +103,11 @@ static int audit_rate_limit;
/* Number of outstanding audit_buffers allowed. */ static int audit_backlog_limit = 64; -static int audit_backlog_wait_time = 60 * HZ; static int audit_backlog_wait_overflow = 0;
+#define AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME (60 * HZ) +static int audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; + /* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */ kuid_t audit_sig_uid = INVALID_UID; pid_t audit_sig_pid = -1; @@ -1053,14 +1055,14 @@ static inline void audit_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, /* * Wait for auditd to drain the queue a little */ -static void wait_for_auditd(unsigned long sleep_time) +static void wait_for_auditd(unsigned long sleep_time, int limit) { DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); add_wait_queue(&audit_backlog_wait, &wait);
if (audit_backlog_limit && - skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > audit_backlog_limit) + skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > limit) schedule_timeout(sleep_time);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); @@ -1095,8 +1097,8 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct audit_buffer *ab = NULL; struct timespec t; unsigned int uninitialized_var(serial); - int reserve; unsigned long timeout_start = jiffies; + int limit;
if (audit_initialized != AUDIT_INITIALIZED) return NULL; @@ -1104,22 +1106,22 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_contex t *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, if (unlikely(audit_filter_type(type))) return NULL;
- if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) - reserve = 0; - else - reserve = 5; /* Allow atomic callers to go up to five + limit = audit_backlog_limit; + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) + limit += 5; /* Allow atomic callers to go up to five entries over the normal backlog limit */
while (audit_backlog_limit - && skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > audit_backlog_limit + reserv e) { + && skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue) > limit) { if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT && audit_backlog_wait_time) { unsigned long sleep_time;
sleep_time = timeout_start + audit_backlog_wait_time - jiffies; - if ((long)sleep_time > 0) - wait_for_auditd(sleep_time); - continue; + if ((long)sleep_time > 0) { + wait_for_auditd(sleep_time, limit); + continue; + } } if (audit_rate_check() && printk_ratelimit()) printk(KERN_WARNING @@ -1133,6 +1135,8 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, return NULL; }
+ audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; + ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type); if (!ab) { audit_log_lost("out of memory in audit_log_start"); -- 1.7.1
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