@@ -991,6 +991,11 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer)
if (!p)
goto out;
+ /* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */
+ sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
+ if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
+ goto out;
+
/*
* Fetch the current sample and update the timer's expiry time.
*/
@@ -1001,11 +1006,6 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timer)
bump_cpu_timer(timer, now);
- /* Protect timer list r/w in arm_timer() */
- sighand = lock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
- if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
- goto out;
-
/*
* Now re-arm for the new expiry time.
*/
Since the process wide cputime counter is started locklessly from posix_cpu_timer_rearm(), it can be concurrently stopped by operations on other timers from the same thread group, such as in the following unlucky scenario: CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- timer_settime(TIMER B) posix_cpu_timer_rearm(TIMER A) cpu_clock_sample_group() (pct->timers_active already true) handle_posix_cpu_timers() check_process_timers() stop_process_timers() pct->timers_active = false arm_timer(TIMER A) tick -> run_posix_cpu_timers() // sees !pct->timers_active, ignore // our TIMER A Fix this with simply locking process wide cputime counting start and timer arm in the same block. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Fixes: 60f2ceaa8111 ("posix-cpu-timers: Remove unnecessary locking around cpu_clock_sample_group") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)