perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()
authorBarret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:29:20 +0000 (18:29 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:42:06 +0000 (16:42 +0200)
commit041957bd74911a9546d5b22f3598ed4512c0a622
tree8828b1a891f6bae2a5d68201d734ea5306b49147
parent5c3a9319907752f688abed63e4f863923a94e933
perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()

commit 2ed6edd33a214bca02bd2b45e3fc3038a059436b upstream.

Under rare circumstances, task_function_call() can repeatedly fail and
cause a soft lockup.

There is a slight race where the process is no longer running on the cpu
we targeted by the time remote_function() runs.  The code will simply
try again.  If we are very unlucky, this will continue to fail, until a
watchdog fires.  This can happen in a heavily loaded, multi-core virtual
machine.

Reported-by: syzbot+bb4935a5c09b5ff79940@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414222920.121401-1-brho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/events/core.c